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Article: Photos aim at windows of the soul.(Arts)(Art)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- January 25, 1998
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It's photographer Consuelo Kanaga's portrait faces that grab you. In 1935, she photographed Annie Mae Merriweather in Alabama. Lynchers had killed the young black woman's husband when he tried to organize sharecroppers. She was beaten and left to die. In moving in close to her subject, Kanaga let Mrs. Merriweather's angry, sad eyes say it all.
It was such a powerful image for the pioneering psychiatrist Carl Jung that he took it back to Switzerland with him. He said he wanted to study what he called the "Black Madonna" more.
For the face of a suffering boy, titled "Malnutrition (New York)" and filling the picture frame, Kanaga (1894-1978) shot ...