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Oil trumps art: the Smithsonian sidelines a major arctic photo exhibit.(Lay Of The Land/www.wwbphoto.com and www.sierraclub.org/sierra/arctic_gallery)
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September 1, 2003
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It didn't take long for freelance photographer Subhankar Banerjee to go from the top of the world to the basement. This spring, the Smithsonian Institution was about to open a major exhibition of his photographs of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in its grand rotunda. But then Senator Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) displayed some of his photos on the Senate floor, urging her colleagues to visit the show before voting to allow oil drilling in the refuge.
Within days, the exhibit was relocated to an out-of-the-way gallery, and already-approved captions were stripped from its pictures. The rationale, as stated by Smithsonian secretary Lawrence Small, was that the captions ...
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