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Article: Wright Morris' images at MFA speak simply yet stunningly
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- August 28, 1994
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WRIGHT MORRIS: ORIGIN OF A SPECIES
Organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art at the
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, through Oct. 16, 1994.
Wright Morris' photographs speak a spare language, one without
adjectives or self-conscious poetry. Although his works have a
snapshot-like simplicity in content and technique, Morris has a
stunning command of composition -- he is in complete control.
Taken with large-format cameras on road trips in the 1930s and
1940s, the photographs currently on exhibit at the Museum of Fine
Arts are detailed black-and-white studies, mostly of rural subjects,
shot in a documentary style.
"Clothing on Hooks, Home Place, 1947" or "House in Winter, ...