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View a complete list of the works in the exhibition. Christian Boltanski's body of work is a disturbing archive of our social, cultural, ethnic, and personal histories. Using the photograph as a central image of his work, Boltanski explores the perceived truth of the photograph, and how it is often used as a shield against death. Using photographs from grade-school portraits, obituaries, tabloids, social clubs, and other common sources, Boltanski notes that the photograph can summon up not only a particular person who may have passed from this earth, but indeed entire groups of people. By mining memories that may be conjured by these innocent photographs, Boltanski demonstrates the signficance of the photograph to our understanding of memory, loss, and death.