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Would anyone care about this work if Christopher Anderson hadnt spent years toiling away in the festering pussholes of the earth? Would this body of work have granted him access to the hallowed halls of VII or Magnum? Would he be “relevant” today, showing only this body of work? Just pondering.
I, for one, think this work is intensely beautiful. I can look at it for hours and I hunger for more. I’ll go to the Magnum archives and search for more of the work and look and look. In fact, I like this work more than alot of his previous stuff. But, these days Im also drawn to much more personal, diaristic work anyway.
Regardless of whatever philosophical questions about “relevance” this body of work pings in me—plenty of people are throwing accolades its way. See NYTimes lens blog here, for example. He is also taking the show on the road in workshops and galleries, including the Magnum Gallery in Paris, here.
