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        Thousands of Men Become One

        The Daily Pic: Jonathas de Andrade’s video in the New Museum Triennial presents 18 different male portraits each second.

        Blake Gopnik

        Updated Jul. 13, 2017 12:04PM ET / Published Mar. 01, 2012 8:43PM ET 

        New Museum

        “4,000 Shots,” a video by the Brazilian artist Jonathas de Andrade, is one of the highlights of the New Museum’s second Triennial, now up in New York. De Andrade has filled 4,000 frames of super-8 film—three minutes’ worth—with that many shots of different men caught on the streets of Buenos Aires, and then looped them into a one-hour video. The effect is compelling: It’s as though an entire population were distilled into a single, flickering image of itself. The piece hovers between stillness and motion; between averaging-out and individuating. It’s also elegiac: All those blurred faces inevitably conjure images of the Latin American men “disappeared” over the years by their oppressive regimes. And erotic: Andrade’s camera seems to have an infinite appetite for its subjects.

        For a full visual archive of past Daily Pics visit blakegopnik.com/archive.

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