Portraits In Motion
Judging from the show, those experiments have been an unqualified success. The pictures narrate a visual history of the second half of the 20th century, from the Suez War in 1956 to the Tiananmen Square uprising of 1989. It’s difficult to see a theme in Burri’s work: he’s obviously a free spirit who likes to push the limits of photojournalism. Yet he can be extremely conservative; in all of his war pictures, for example, there is not one cadaver....