Complicating the Picture of Urban Life – NYTimes.com

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Complicating the Picture of Urban Life

A new exhibit features three Bronx-born photographers whose work explores the idea of community while challenging outdated, lingering notions.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/02/23/complicating-the-picture-of-urban-life/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog

a provocative new exhibition at the Bronx Museum of Art, “Three Photographers From the Bronx: Jules Aarons, Morton Broffman and Joe Conzo,” which opens Feb. 26. The disparate subjects of its three Bronx-born, socially conscious photographers — the civil rights movement, life outside Manhattan and community advocacy — would at first seem to have little in common.