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Christopher Morris, My America

Hasted Hunt
529 West 20th Street, 3rd Floor, 212-627-0006
Chelsea
September 7 - October 7, 2006
Reception: Thursday, September 14, 6 - 8 PM
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The images from My America transcend their origins as documentary photographs and offer a shrewd and slightly skewed post-modern consideration of contemporary behavior in the US political milieu.

Christopher Morris joined the White House press corps after more than 20 years as a very highly regarded conflict photographer. My America is his take on the America of George Bushs presidency. Rallies and secret service personnel, cheerleaders and soldiers are part of this unique take on life in these times. Celebration and solemnity, enthusiasm and alienation are all a part of his extended portrait of democracy today.

Hopefully you will see what I saw and feel what I felt – a nation that has wrapped itself so tightly in the red, white and blue that it has gone blind. writes Morris.

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