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  • Naeem Mohaiemen, Rankin Street, 1953, 2013, video, black-and-white, sound, 8 minutes.

    Naeem Mohaiemen, Rankin Street, 1953, 2013, video, black-and-white, sound, 8 minutes.

    Naeem Mohaiemen

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    Families, if you look closely enough, tell the big histories. In 2010, Naeem Mohaiemen found a small cardboard box as he cleared things from the old family home in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Inside, he discovered wrapped in wax paper more than a hundred negatives, carefully labeled in his father’s handwriting. These images became the subject of Mohaiemen’s film Rankin Street, 1953, 2013, where he shows us the photographs and provides narration. This year, he revisited these images with a suite of transfer prints, Baksho Rohoshyo (Chobi Tumi Kar?) (Mystery Box [Photo, Who Do You Love?]), 2019, made from

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