Sweet Talk A project by The Atlas Group in collaboration with Lamia Hilwé In 1973, The Atlas Group initiated the ongoing project titled Sweet Talk . The foundation recruited dozens of men and women to photograph streets, storefronts, buildings, and other spaces of national, technological, architectural, cultural, political, and economic significance in Beirut. In this exhibition, The Atlas Group displays a selection of photographs produced in 1992 and 2005 by Lamia Hilwé. Each of the following plates includes: a small black and white rectangular photograph of a building; and a large color photograph of the same building. Hilwé produced and submitted the small black and white photographs in 1992.
Twelve years later, she revisited and submitted a variation of the same photograph as a contemporary document of the same building. About The Atlas Group:
The Atlas Group is a project and of a foundation established in Beirut (Lebanon) in 1967 to research and document the contemporary history of Lebanon. The Atlas Group locates, collects, preserves, displays, produces and studies audio, visual, literary and other documents that shed light on this history. The documents are preserved in The Atlas Group Archive located in Beirut (Lebanon) and New York (USA).