It is with deep regret that we inform you that The Friends of Photography closed all operations and exhibitions as of 10/31/01
We are pleased to inform you that our programs and assets are being transferred to other San Francisco Bay Area organizations for the ongoing benefit of our members and the public.
Please view the exhibition page as the archive of Friends’
exhibitions.
Exhibitions
Modern Photography in Japan: 1915-1940
July 24 – September 30, 2001
The early years of the twentieth century were a time of tremendous change and growth for Japan and was reflected in the photographic artistry that emerged during these decades. Modern Japanese Photography will present over seventy images by thirty-five photographers whose work evolved from a pictorialist tradition to the beginning of a modernist aesthetic. Selected entirely from collections in Japan, this exhibition includes work never before exhibited in the United States which offers a unique look at this artistic legacy. This exhibition is accompanied by a catalog, distributed by D.A.P.
Intimate Eye: The Paintings and Photographs of Consuelo Kanaga
July 24 – September 30, 2001
During Consuelo Kanaga’s sixty year career in photography she was included in such benchmark exhibitions as the 1932 Group f.64 exhibition at the M.H. De Young Museum in San Francisco, alongside the work of Ansel Adams, Edward Weston and Imogen Cunningham, and Edward Steichen’s 1955 Family of Man exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. However, she remained relatively underrecognized during her lifetime, and only within the last ten years is becoming acknowledged as one of America’s important photographers. Up to now, there has been one retrospective, of Kanaga’s photographs, mounted by the Brooklyn Museum in 1992. Intimate Eye will for the first time show Kanaga’s stunning black and white photography alongside her paintings. It will revisit Kanaga’s work, heretofore considered within the school of American Modernism, by way of including her self-taught, naive style paintings. The resulting scholarship will broaden the canon of twentieth century American art history, especially American Modernism, through increased study of the work of this previously underacknowledged woman artist. Publication pending.