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VISUAL ARTS BY BLAKE ANDREWS EDWARD WESTON, DIEGO RIVERA, 1924 SOUTH OF THE BORDER Mexico is the inspiration and location of a photography collection currently on display “M írame Bien!” pleads the current photog- raphy exhibit in the Morris Graves gal- lery at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art — “Take a good look at me!” That’s sound advice when visiting any photo show, but particularly the diminutive prints of Edward Weston, Paul Strand and Manuel Alvarez Bravo. Tucked in a dark antechamber behind the sweeping Cuba Ocho exhibit, this show squeezes a handful of note- book-sized photos into a space roughly the size of a taco truck, a display method which feels at once like an homage to the bygone era of small printing and a nod to the con- temporary trend — Portland Art Museum, anyone? — of relegating photography to secluded museum corners. But local photo buffs needn’t fret. Bring your read- ing specs, get close and meet the show’s imperative — “Mírame Bien!” — and you’ll be rewarded with a fresh impression of Mexico. Although disparaged by the current buffoon-in-chief, our southern neighbor has long been a creative hotspot. In the 1920s, post-revolutionary Mexico attracted curi- ous norteamericanos in droves, Paul Strand and Edward Weston among them. Both made extended junkets south of the border as wandering thirty-somethings, taking plenty of photos along the way. The small selection at the Schnitzer bristles with the restless energy of wide-eyed young travelers. Strand’s photogravure of a pastoral vista, purportedly his first photograph made after crossing the border, brims with a sense of possibility as the scene recedes to the fron- CLASSIFIEDS BULLETIN BOARD Announcements DAWN of TRUTH & TRANSFORMATION Envision a World of Peace & JUSTICE Share-International.org SHARE H O P E SOUTH EUGENE HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 67 , 50 YEAR REUNION 8/11-12/17 Details: www.sehs67.com Questions call 541-342-2252 or 541-579-4697 email: sehs67@yahoo.com Wanted BEST PRICES FOR VINTAGE BOOKS, AD POSTERS, & PHOTO ALBUMS. Diaries & Journals. All types & topics. 541-520-9821, thebookfinder@gmail.com, ezrabook.com Pets GREENHILL HUMANE SOCIETY Everybody Deserves a Good Home. Open Fr-Tu 11a-6p, closed We/Th 88530 Green Hill Rd 541-689- 1503 and 1st Avenue Shelter open Tu-Fr 10a-6p & Sa 10a-5:30p, closed Su/Mo 3970 W. 1st Ave 541-844-1777. green-hill.org See our Pet of the Week! SHELTER ANIMAL RESOURCE ALLIANCE S.A.R.A.’s Treasures Gift & Thrift Shop. 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He made friends as easily as he made photos. Within a few short months in Mexico City, Weston was enmeshed in the local avant-garde art scene and photo- graphing its central characters. Informal portraits of Diego Rivera, Guadalupe de Rivera and Tina Modotti evince a relaxed atmosphere, and serve as counterweight to the ten- sion of Strand. The magic of Weston is that, even when photographing friends, he was able to achieve an objective formality that superseded subject matter. His photograph of an ancient pyramidal ruin, one of the show’s highlights, is so sharply realized it nearly jumps from the frame. As fine as Strand and Weston are, both are overshad- owed in this show by their Mexican colleague Manuel Ál- varez Bravo, who lords over the room with just two plati- num prints: one of a boy urinating into a bowl, the other an eerie posthumous face. The peeing boy seems an homage to Weston’s well- known nude torso of his son Neil, but with vitality replac- ing formalism. 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