McPhee at MFA

A compelling exhibit of modern photography opens at the MFA this weekend. That alone qualifies as news. But you've got to see these pictures - six-by-eight-foot color prints of pictures that Laura McPhee made with a 50-year-old view camera in rural Idaho. A distinctly contemporary sensibility looks at life and death, man and nature, the high country. And if you've ever wondered what an elk heart looks like...The exhibit is called "River of No Return," and it's up May 13 through mid-September. I've got an interview with the artist in the next Improper Bostonian. Meanwhile, The Exhibitionist has a brief narrated slide show here.