Michael Weinstein

Among the twenty-two photographers in this dense show celebrating the various modernist genres, the standout artists deploy their straight-shooting talents to highlight unfamiliarity. The most compelling images are Phyllis Gottlieb's intimate and slightly muted color street scenes taken in Morocco and Cuba that bring those places together and distance them from us. Defying the conventions of travel photography, Gottlieb gets close in and jams her subjects into the frame, as when she shows us a battered old sedan wedging a man against a building facade on a narrow Havana street. Working expertly in color with a simple pinhole camera, Dana Day turns the trick of preserving sufficient detail within distortion to make us feel that her cityscapes of Amsterdam are what we might see if we were pleasantly stoned.

"Exposure" shows at Landmark Arts, 841 West Randolph, (312)491-1900, through February 11.

(2005-01-04)

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