Female-mannequin intimacy

Photo by Martine Gutierrez from her series “Girl Friends,’’ in her show “Life/Like: Photographs by Martine Gutierrez,’’ at the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, Mass. through June 16. The museum notes that “Girl Friends’’ “depicts two same-dressed women in different places and poses, but despite their intimacy, one of the women is a mannequin, challenging the viewer's perception of reality.’’ Note that they’re both wearing wedding dresses.

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'Fleeting sensations'

"Pittsburgh, Carnival and Train'' (derail of a vintage chromogenic print), by Joel Meyerowitz in the show "Fragile Paper Timeships,'' at Mount Holyoke College Museum of Art,  South Hadley, Mass., though May 29.

The gallery says:

"'Fragile Paper Timeships' features a selection of vintage chromogenic prints by the  renowned photographer and explores his career following the publication of his influential book Cape Light in 1979.''

"In the following decade, Meyerowitz deepened his investigation of the descriptive power of the large-format view camera and learned, as he later reflected, 'to photograph without looking' and {to} trust his sensory reality. A master of color photography for more than four decades, Meyerowitz catches fleeting sensations in his images, rather than just objects of observations.''

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