View images by Sophie Ristelhueber, which illustrate Art and the Aftermath of War.
For a moment, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston considered canceling its long-planned show of Sophie Ristelhueber's photographs. Consider her topics: modern office buildings blown to bits by explosives, aerial views of tanks strewn like toys in the desert, close-ups of landmines, half-buried in sand, a line of surgical sutures snaking the length of a nude woman's spine.
For 20 years, Sophie Ristelhueber has been obsessed with recording the scars and wounds of war, not as a photo-journalist, but as an artist. By coincidence, her photographs were en route to the U.S. from Europe on September 11th, when all flights were turned back.
But the museum decided her show is all the more timely, challenging and eloquent. It opens this week.
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Sophie Ristelhueber, photographer
Cheryl Brutvan, Beal Curator of Contemporary Art at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
