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09/06/2007

Andrea Robbins and Max Becher to exhibit with SCAD photography professor Zig Jackson at Red Gallery

SCAD, Savannah, Andrea Robbins, Displaced Identity photography exhibition

Andrea Robbins, Max Becher, Three Men from the series German Indians, Chromogenic prints, 30" x 25.75", 1997-98.
SCAD, Savannah, Zig Jackson, Displaced Identity photography Exhibition, 2007

SCAD, Savannah, Zig Jackson, Displaced Identity photography Exhibition, 2007

Zig Jackson, Indian Photographing Tourist Photographing Indian, Camera in Face, Taos, New Mexico, gelatin silver print, 16" x 20", 2004.

SAVANNAH, Ga. — The Savannah College of Art and Design presents an exhibition by renowned collaborative photographers Andrea Robbins and Max Becher, along with SCAD photography professor Zig Jackson, Sept. 7–Oct. 15 at Red Gallery, 201 E. Broughton St.

“(” focuses on the artists’ shared interest in the representation of Native American identity in contemporary culture.

Jackson, raised on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota, is of Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara descent. As a native artist in contemporary America, Jackson’s photography deconstructs myths and misconceptions about Native Americans while exploring contemporary issues.

“The subject of legend and popular fantasy, [the native American] is commonly viewed as an ageless anachronism forever frozen in the past, as exemplified by tired and hackneyed characterizations such as the ‘Noble Savage,’ the stoic and ruthless warrior, the nubile, buckskin-clad maiden, the all-knowing shaman and spiritual guru, etc.,” Jackson said in his artist statement. “Even today, after centuries of coexistence, the real Indian remains an elusive paradox to the majority of non-native society.”

Andrea Robbins and Max Becher’s work focuses on the transportation of place – or situations where one isolated place strongly resembles another distant one. In “(Dis)placed Identity,” the photographs exhibit tourists in Germany dressed as Native Americans attending outdoor festivals and meeting in loosely formed groups, called tribes.

Robbins and Becher’s photographs explore the idea that postwar Germans, who were once discouraged from nationalism and group ritual, may sense a permission to find themselves in other ethnic groups. The husband and wife duo will speak at the Trustees Theater, Oct. 11, 7:30 p.m. The lecture is free and open to the public. For more information, visit .

Named one of Kaplan’s “25 cutting-edge schools with an eye toward the future,” the Savannah College of Art and Design is a private, nonprofit, accredited institution with locations in Atlanta and Savannah, Ga., and in Lacoste, France. Undergraduate and graduate degree programs also are offered online through SCAD-eLearning. The college offers Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Master of Architecture, Master of Arts, Master of Arts in Teaching, Master of Fine Arts, and Master of Urban Design degrees.