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Defining Modernism: Group f.64
October 9 - December 9, 2001
Lux 1
October 9 - December 9, 2001
Obscure Desire: Ambiguity in the Male
Form
December 18, 2001 - February 24, 2002
Capturing Eden: A Photographic Study
of Gardens
March 5 - May 12, 2002
In Response to Place
May 12 - July 14, 2002
Mary Ellen Mark: American Photographs -
Four Decades
July 23 - September 15, 2002
Defining
Modernism: Group f.64
October 9 - December 9,
2001
In 1932, a group of
California photographers organized themselves in reaction to
Pictorialism, the favored style of the day. Group f.64, influenced
by the work of Edward Weston, among others, favored straight
photography, a respect for the medium, and a clarity of detail.
This exhibition is designed to highlight the breadth of the work
created by this group and to differentiate the approaches employed
by Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, John Paul Edwards, Alma Lavenson,
Consuelo Kanaga, Sonya Noskowiak, Henry Swift, Willard Van Dyke,
Brett Weston, and Edward Weston. This exhibition is accompanied
by a catalog, distributed by D.A.P.
Lux 1
October 9 - December 9,
2001
Beginning in 2001,
The Friends of Photography will begin Lux, an ongoing
series of contemporary internationally-based, one gallery exhibitions.
Lux will present innovative work in which the artist is
involved in all aspects of the design and installation of the
piece. The bi-annual exhibitions will probe concepts of the nature
of photography, and what the medium has and will continue to
convey. The artwork that appears in Lux represents an
important new direction for photography, one that removes the
medium from a context of self-referentiality and places it within
the rubric of other contemporary visual activity, such as painting,
sculpture, video, and architecture.
Ansel
Adams, A Legacy: Masterworks from the Collection of The Friends
of Photography
December 18, 2001 - February
24, 2002
After more than two
years of touring throughout the United States and Japan, Ansel
Adams, A Legacy: Masterworks from The Friends of Photography
Collection is welcomed home to celebrate the 100th anniversy
of Ansel Adams' birth. This exhibition contains over 100 works
that were printed, selected, and exhibited in the last years
of his life, when he was most concerned with shaping his artistic
legacy. They include landscapes and other images from his extensive
travels in the Southwest, pictures of national parks and monuments,
views of San Francisco and the Bay Area, portraits, abstract-style
close-ups, and other subjects.
Obscure
Desire: Ambiguity in the Male Form
December 18, 2001 - February
24, 2002
The subject of the
body has been ubiquitous in art since its beginning. The body
always has served as a glass on which our societal beliefs are
mirrored, both as a subject of investigation and as an object
to be examined. The female body has been the more depicted gender,
often by male photographers turning their gaze on the female
subject. This exhibition and accompanying catalog is unique in
that it is solely male photographers photographing men. However,
these works defy the traditional roles the gender has played
in art--whether in documentary photography, traditional male
nudes, or erotic art--and in doing so examine the often conflicting
and layered meanings surrounding the male body. This exhibition
explores a group of male photographers who push the boundaries
of gender representation, exploring and overturning conventional
concepts of the male body through their often ambiguous imagery.
Capturing
Eden: A Photographic Study of Gardens
March 5 - May 12, 2002
Capturing Eden explores through photography the
significance of the garden with its varying implications to our
society. Man-made Edens have been with us since biblical times.
The garden ideally allows for the free range of the imagination,
the Arcadian dream. Yet the dialog which surrounds the garden
is complex and raises many questions. What are the implications
of turning nature into a human artifact? How have different class
structures played out to the backdrop of the garden? How have
changing styles of the garden fit into the development of art,
literature, science, and architecture? Furthermore, how does
the garden photograph, shape, add, and distort what the garden
means? Capturing Eden will be an exhibition of the garden
photograph, starting from the beginning of photography to the
present day. The exhibition does not claim to be a comprehensive
survey of all garden photography, but rather to be a selection
of images which raise questions as to the meanings of garden
photography. The images are drawn from famous, as well as letter
known photographers and will also include some works on paper.
The exhibition will be contextualized within the larger framework
of the development of gardens, art and society. The approach
taken by The Friends of Photography offers an entirely new perspective
to the current dialogue surrounding the exhibition of gardens.
This exhibition is accompanied by a catalog.
In
Response to Place
May 12 - July 14, 2002
In Response to
Place, an exhibition
organized by The Nature Conservancy, features the work of twelve
widely exhibited photographers, including William Christenberry,
Lee Friedlander, Annie Leibovitz, Sally Mann, Mary Ellen Mark,
Richard Misrach, and William Wegman. During 1999, each of the
photographers visited a location designated by The Nature Conservancy
as a "Last Great Place." These ranged from the Sonoran
Desert in Arizona to a tidal cove in northernmost Maine, and
covered geographic regions from New York to California, Brazil,
Mexico, and Indonesia. In curator Andy Grundberg's view, the
exhibition reveals the vital and diverse iterrelations of human
beings and the natural world. The images of In Response to
Place depict a world markedly different from both classical
wilderness photography, and the more skeptical depictions of
the "man-altered landscape" produced during the last
fity years. Instead, this works suggests that the beauty of nature
and the reality of human presence are not antithetical. The photographers
have been selected to represent a variety of approaches to the
medium, including portraiture, photojournalism, landscape and
nature photography. The exhibition includes 120 black and
white photographs.
Mary
Ellen Mark: American Photographs - Four Decades
July 23 - September 15,
2002
Mary Ellen Mark:
American Photographs - Four Decades represents Mary Ellen Mark's personal vision of what
it means to be American. It is a portrait of the extraordinary
diversity of our evolving culture taken from the early sixties
to the end of the millennium. This exhibition leaves no corner
of the United States unexamined, from Coney Island to Daytona
and Miami. Mark's photographs seek the essence, the true nature
of our lives, and looks for the common thread that binds us all.
The exhibition forms an unusually arresting look at this vast
and endlessly fascinating country. This exhibition is accompanied
by a catalog and is being toured by Aperture.
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