Joyce and Robert Menschel Hall for Modern Photography
New York
8 April - 19 October 2008
Photography on Photography: Reflections on the Medium since 1960, on view from April 8 through October 19, 2008, is the second exhibition in the Museum’s new gallery for contemporary photographs. Photography on Photography presents four decades of photographs by artists in the permanent collection who have made photography itself their subject and taken aim at its claims of objectivity and its ubiquity in modern life. Featured in the exhibition are works by Vito Acconci, William Anastasi, Lutz Bacher, Liz Deschenes, Roe Ethridge, Robert Heinecken, Sherrie Levine, Robert Mapplethorpe, Richard Prince, Thomas Ruff, Allen Ruppersberg, Karin Sander, Hiroshi Sugimoto, and Andy Warhol, as well as recently acquired photographs by Moyra Davey, Kota Ezawa, Janice Guy, Josephine Pryde, James Welling, Christopher Williams, and Mark Wyse.
“Our inaugural installation was intended to introduce the general audience to many of the different strands of contemporary photography that interest us,” said Malcolm Daniel, Curator in Charge of the Department of Photographs, “This new selection takes a narrower focus, showing how photographers since Conceptual Art have reflected on the medium itself in their work. With many more works by younger artists, this installation also provides more of a snapshot of where photography is at the moment.”
Photography on Photography is organized by Doug Eklund, Assistant Curator in the Department of Photographs.
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