Beautiful Suffering: Photography and the Traffic in Pain
From the website: This exhibition explores some of the key debates concerning the depiction of suffering in photography. Through 40 works by internationally renowned photographers such as Alfredo Jaar, An-My Lê, Susan Meiselas, Andres Serrano, James Nachtwey, Sally Mann, and Sebastião Salgado, amongst others, images in Beautiful Suffering: Photography and the Traffic in Pain are drawn from the last two decades of art, advertising, and photojournalism.
College museum to open 'Beautiful Suffering'
From the website: "Our intention is not to illustrate that these pictures illustrate suffering in some way," said curator Erina Duganne, "but to use them to consider some of the debates that have been made around the aestheticization of suffering in photography."
