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to do it in a nontraditional way."
Photographs in the Ann Arbor show
include figure studies, portraits and
images of water with a diaphanous qual-
ill Jacobson's black and white
ity that implies the transience and insta-
photographs are out of focus
bility of life and the elusiveness of
and hazy; they convey the
human relationships. Images of men's
notion that images, like mem-
faces, hands, bodies, and bodies of
ories, can be unclear and fade with time.
water, are at once disturbing and peace-
That's the message the New York-
ful.
based photographer hopes people will
Much of it is personal as well; Jacob-
get when viewing 33 of his photographs
son
connects the look of his photos to
on display in an exhibit at the University
the experience of having lost
of Michigan Museum of
many friends and associates to
Art. The show opens with a
Above: Bill Jacobson:
the
AIDS epidemic.
gallery talk and book signing
"Thought Series
The photographs in the
by the artist 5-7 p.m. Friday, #2336," silver geltin
exhibit are drawn from three
Jan. 29, and runs through
print; 1997.
different groups: "Interim
March.
Portraits" (1992-93); "Interim
Jacobson's Ann Arbor
Figures" (1993); "The Songs of Sentient
exhibit celebrates the publication of Bill
Beings" (1994-95) and the "Thought
Jacobson 1989-1997 (Twin Palms Pub-
Series" (1993-98).
lishers; Santa Fe, N.M.; $60), a 112-
"In the early work, the pictures are
page coffee-table book of his work.
very light and very white; there is a very
"A photograph is a memento of
ghostly feeling to them," says Jacobson.
something that happened — but that
Recent photographs have "more of a
moment ceases to exist once that photo-
sense of life as being impermanent. The
graph is taken," says Jacobson, 44.
out of focus and the darkness in the
"In my work, what I'm really trying
later pictures refers to the fact that every-
to get at by going out of focus is to
thing changes, everything evolves and
make images a metaphor for the way the
ultimately dissolves."
mind works. Memory really is an
Growing up in a marginally obser-
obscure thing, not a fixed, permanent
vant Conservative Jewish household in
thing the way photographs are. It's
Connecticut, Jacobson can't pinpoint
acknowledging the role of photography
exactly when his interest in photography
as a vehicle for remembrance but trying

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