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Article: NEW YORK: Barbara Pollack at Thread Waxing Space and Holly Solomon.(New York, New York)(Brief Article)
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- Art in America
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- June 1, 1999
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Barbara Pollack's photographs are blurry fields of color, distortions and mistakes. Using old Polaroid cameras and expired film, she shakes the camera during the exposure, and then presses and plies the Polaroid image while it's developing--anything to get a "bad" picture. When she used this blur technique in her 1992 show "What Are You Staring At?" where she rephotographed pornographic images, the intent was, according to Pollack, to prolong the viewer's attention, to "heighten the sense of voyeurism while frustrating the gaze."
In her recent show, "Family of Men," at Thread Waxing Space, Pollack's technique has different implications. In 50 images of her ...