An exhibition of approximately 130 photographs and multimedia projects by seniors in the Department of Photography and Imaging at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts will open February 17 and remain on view through March 11, 2000. The works are all senior thesis projects from the graduating class of 2000. Gallery hours are 10 am to 7 pm weekdays, and noon to 5 pm Saturdays.
Admission is free.
These images allow the viewer to begin to confront the actual medium of photography rather than evaluate visual representations. The Things They Carried , comprises photographed objects carried by soldiers in their rucksacks during the Vietnam War and is accompanied by text as dictated by veterans of the war. Sarah Wilson's photographs present the personalities she encountered while living in Marathon, Texas. Rayne Roberts' Dreams of Previous Lives is an ethereal body of images that relate to her fascination with memory and include an adaptation of a Michael Ondaatje poem. Melissa Berger has transformed her fragmented thoughts into an eloquent display of color images that are further articulated by text from various sources.