
Complementing the small portraits are large scale contemporary photographs of Civil War battlefields by Eliot Dudik, which helps us recognize the past while looking ahead to the future. Dudik creates his 20” x 50” and 40” x 100” photographs using a century old 8x20 inch view camera, also known as a banquet camera in the early 20th century for its use in photographing large groups of people. He manufactured a custom jig for the camera that allows him to expose two sheets of 8x10 color film whiten the camera at the same time, later bringing the two halves back together digitally. Not only are his images visually representative of the split in the nation 150 years ago and to some extant still visible today, but Dudik’s process reinforces this separation and reunification.
This exhibition, which honors the Sesquicentennial of Mayo Clinic ~ 150 Years of Serving Humanity, is made possible by the generous support of Richard Look and Henry W. Randle, M.D.
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