This show includes photographs from a lot of big name
photographers. The signature photograph,
in addition to the piece hung in the gallery, is presented in a translucent
wrap on the large show windows facing on 12th Avenue . It is of a woman lying in a hospital bed
looking directly at the camera. Clearly
in great distress, she is the photographer, Eugene Richards’, wife who shortly
after the photograph was taken died of metastatic cancer. The title is “The Last Chemo Treatment”.
I would not for a moment claim that Mr. Richards or any of
the other photographers whose work is in the show should not have taken the
photographs. Nor would I claim for a
moment that curator and PCNW director Michelle Dunn Marsh should not have
conceived of this show or curated it.
However, I can confidently claim that I would not have done
so.
“At the moment of love and the moment of death we should
turn our heads.”
-- Henri
Cartier-Bresson
Yep.
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