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Art: Photography
Protest in Paris 1968

When

Mar 12 – June 1

Wednesdays–Sundays (11am–5pm)

Where
Berkeley Art Museum (2626 Bancroft Way, 510.642.0808)
Price
$8
Details
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/press/release/TXT0217
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Forty years after Paris' famous May 1968 protests, the true meaning of the uprisings is debatable — but that's not for lack of documentation. The Berkeley Art Museum complements the Pacific Film Archive's The Clash of '68 series with this landmark exhibition of large-scale photos by Serge Hambourg, a photojournalist who captured the tumult for the French weekly Le Nouvel Observateur. His striking images of riots and marches have a special resonance on the UC-Berkeley campus, itself a beacon of '60s radicalism.

Max Goldberg