
从 Harvard Gazette 对哈里·史密斯展览的完整报道出发,理解他如何把抽象电影、民谣编纂、民族志研究与街头物件收藏接成一套跨媒介方法,也保留其中的伦理裂口。

I jokingly referred to him as the Forrest Gump of avant-garde culture. He was always around at all the right times and was connected to the right people.——Carpenter Center 主任 Dan Byers 对史密斯的概括。它抓住了史密斯跨越不同圈层的轨迹,也留下一个需要被后文修正的偶然性幻觉:史密斯并非只是恰好在场,他一直在收集和重新排列现场。1
At this point in the ’50s, abstract film was still really new and coming into its own. He was on the formative end of painting directly on film.——哈佛电影档案馆的 Brittany Gravely 说明史密斯在抽象电影史中的位置。她的判断把注意力从传奇人物拉回到具体技法:颜料、模板和图像如何直接作用于胶片。1
Was he an extractive ethnographer in the ways that many folks in the 20th century had been, taking advantage of people in ways that ethnographers sometimes did? It’s hard to know how to make sense of it.——Philip Deloria 对史密斯民族志实践的追问。它没有替这段历史做出轻率判决,却要求读者把史密斯的连接能力和他的观看权力同时放在眼前。1
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