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...remaining photographs and paintings are more difficult to categorize as they straddle figurative and landscape art, and thus can be characterized by the conflict or harmony of the figure’s interaction with landscape. There are three photographs—by Collier Schorr, Gregory Crewdson and Todd Hido—and three paintings—by Tim Gardner, Elizabeth Peyton and Catherine Murphy. The Schorr is a literal and picturesque depiction of man in nature. The Crewdson and Hido photographs are interesting views of the domestication of landscape and the superposition of natural elements and images of suburbia...
Science Fictions switches from textbook to maudlin TV movie as Crewdson relates cases of innocent hemophiliacs given tainted transfusions, birthing mothers who received bad blood and otherwise healthy people whose infections could have been prevented if Gallo had acknowledged his error...
...illegal and unethical manipulation of data feel anti-climatic. In fact, the tedium of the nearly six-year government investigation, with its 300 pages of Congressional evidence, makes Science Fictions feel more like a Lexis-Nexus search than a story of scientific sleuthing. Instead of mentioning every slip-up, Crewdson could have focused on Gallo’s most heinous attempts to steal headlines...
...this brilliant scientist’s pursuit of glory at all costs is hidden in a litany dinner meetings. And the difficulties of searching for clues to HIV and the efforts of other well-intentioned scientists are entirely forgotten. In trying to portray the futility of egoism in science, Crewdson commits the ultimate irony: Gallo emerges as the only memorable, potentially household name in the story...
...John Crewdson...