On Duty: Odermatt, Metinides and Weegee: Westport Arts Center

Curated by Helen Klisser During
From the Andrew and Christine Hall Collection

 

This exhibition will feature 45 photographs by three important historic photographers - a Swiss policeman, Arnold Odermatt; a Mexican photojournalist, Enrique Metinides; and New York's Arthur Fellig, known as "Weegee." All three, while on duty in their respective professions, crossed the line of simply documenting accidents and day-to-day mayhem. The content of the imagery, often tragic, transcends the rawness of the event and moves into the realm of a modernist aesthetic that is both profound and thought provoking.