Beyond Representation: Photographs of Japan, China, Israel, France, and Wallingford, CT

In the spring of 2007, the Gallery opened its first exhibit, “Beyond Representation: Photographs of Japan, China, Israel, France, and Wallingford, CT” by David Apter, a founding fellow of the Whitney. These photographs represented two different modes of seeing. Those from Japan and China were integral to Apter’s field research as a political ethnographer. Those from Israel, France, and Wallingford, in contrast, captured casual sightings that nonetheless provoke response. In each case, for Apter, “visualizing through the lens suggests what research alone or the casual stroll might otherwise have obscured, ignored, or missed.”