NewsWhore
05-18-2006, 02:17 PM
Photographers Andrea Robbins and Max Becher are exhibiting a unique sample of Dominican history in New York. Tonkanow at 535 West 22nd Street, Chelsea (through 18 May) features an exhibition of portraits of the inhabitants of two DR communities- the descendants of freed American slaves who arrived in the early 19th century and the descendants of German Jews who arrived in the 1930s at the invitation of Dictator Trujillo. The Robbins/Becher duo has also produced a high quality 60-minute video called "The Americans of Samana" about their experiences interviewing the descendants of these people who still live in Samana. The exhibition was featured in the Arts section of the New York Times on Wednesday, 17 May.
See http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D03E4DA173CF936A35753C1A9679C8B63
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See http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D03E4DA173CF936A35753C1A9679C8B63
Link To Original Article (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#14)