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    Ports and Ships: Photographs by Andrea Frank

    Ports and Ships: Photographs by Andrea Frank

    Presented by MIT Office of the Arts

    February 10-June 10, 2009

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    Despite the expansion of air transport in the last half century, global trade still moves mainly by sea, as it has for centuries. Ports and Ships illuminates the invisible global network of vessels crisscrossing the seas, delivering goods, and connecting continents. These colossal ships, signed by time and their rough maritime environment, radiate a multi-faceted beauty and melancholy. They are the aging, noble beasts of transport that serve our thoroughly modern desires to send, receive, and consume at a rate that is increasingly better, cheaper, and faster.

    In this current wave of globalization, the demands of modern shipping have forced ports to adapt to the growing appetite for volume and speed in sea trade. Capturing on film the points of origin and destination of these worldtraveling vessels is the conceptual axis on which this project revolves.

    Andrea Frank's book, Ports and Ships, will be available for purchase at the Museum Store.


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        Compton Gallery (Rm 10-150, enter 77 Mass Ave)


        Cambridge, MA

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        February 10-June 10, 2009

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        10am-5pm

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