Craft and Camera: The Art of Nancy Ford Cones
For more than thirty years, on a small riverside farm in Loveland, Ohio, Nancy Ford Cones created photographs that earned her an international reputation. Despite the praise they received during her lifetime, Cones’s imaginative and exquisitely crafted works were largely forgotten after her death. This exhibition celebrates the gifted artist’s career and her contributions to the field of photography.
Power and Perspective: Early Photography in China
Power and Perspective explores how the introduction of photography transformed perceptions of 19th century China. The exhibition mines PEM’s collection of 19th century photographs of China – one of the most important in the world – to reveal and reframe photography as an inherently social medium that demands the participation of many people, including viewers today.
Time Management Techniques
Time Management Techniques showcases photography by artists who examined the medium’s relationship to time between 1968 and 2019. Drawn from the Whitney’s permanent collection, the exhibition features many recent acquisitions alongside works that have never before been exhibited.
Beyond the Record
Beyond the Record centers around the selection of three photographic series by the renowned Salvadoran-born and Washington, DC -based artist and activist Muriel Hasbun (b. 1961): Pulse: New Cultural Registers (2020–22), X post facto (2009–2013), and Saints and Shadows (1991–1997), which provide a mini-survey of her career.
Selections from the Collection: War and Conflict
Since the invention of photography, the documentation of war has been a subject of interest to the camera and consumers. People have long relied on photographs to view and grapple with the harsh realities of war and conflict, whether by purchasing a copy of Gardner’s Photographic Sketchbook of the War (1866), armchair traveling with stereocards to No Man’s Land of World War I (1914–18), or seeing the destruction of 9/11 on the cover of Time magazine.
CANADA NOW: New Photography Acquisitions
This exhibition features the work of ten Canadian artists who employ photographic media to engage with issues of identity and belonging. Representing individuals, their communities, and their diverse life experiences, these images highlight various aspects of visibility and resilience.
IMAGE CAPITAL. ESTELLE BLASCHKE & ARMIN LINKE
In Image Capital, Estelle Blaschke and Armin Linke explore the history and present of photography as information technology. The project evolves over the course of 2022 and 2023, and takes three different shapes: a traveling exhibition; an online database; and a printed book.
Art for the Future: Artists Call and Central American Solidarities
Art for the Future: Artists Call and Central American Solidarities is an in-depth examination of the formative 1980s activist campaign Artists Call Against US Intervention in Central America. The exhibition features more than 100 artists, including original participants and contemporary artists in conversation with the campaign.
At Home/On Stage: Asian American Representation in Photography and Film
This exhibition explores work by Asian American artists addressing issues of identity and representation. Featuring photographs, film, and video spanning the twentieth century, it focuses on artworks made since the 1970s, a period of sweeping activism that demanded more and better representation in politics, education, and culture.
On the Grid: Ways of Seeing in Print
The grid often hides in plain sight, from notepads and spreadsheets to halftone photographic reproductions and pixelated images. It dominates the organization, perception, and representation of the modern world, especially in print.
Perspectives: Recent Gifts of Contemporary Art
Curated by Jamie M. Allen & Phil Taylor with assistance provided by Meghan L. Jordan
George Eastman Museum, June 18, 2022 - January 1, 2023
Anastasia Samoylova: FloodZone
Curated by Jamie M. Allen
George Eastman Museum, July 16–December 18, 2022
In Dialogue
In Dialogue' is an ongoing series of installations that places contemporary photographs in conversation with historical works in the Getty Museum's collection. This third rotation explores how artists repurpose existing imagery to create fresh compositions.
Let There Be Light: The Black Swans of Ellen Carey
Let There Be Light: The Black Swans of Ellen Carey opens as a visual vade mecum at Galerie Miranda in spring 2022. Carey’s handbook guides us through photography’s nearly two centuries’ arc of light, photogram, colour and Polaroid as seen in her practices, Photography Degree Zero and Struck by Light.
A Living for Us All: Artists and the WPA
Curated by Shana Lopes and Emilia Mickevicius, with our colleagues Maria Castro and Rachel Jans, both of SFMOMA's Painting and Sculpture department
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 03/26/2022 - 07/24/2022
13 Ways of Looking at Landscape: Larry Silver's Connecticut Photographs
Curated by Leslie K. Brown, PhD, 13 Ways of Looking at Landscape: Larry Silver's Connecticut Photographs is the largest solo show of Silver's work to date and is on display the Fairfield University Art Museum through June 18th.
Poetics of Resistance from the Archive in Two Acts
Curated by Raquel Villar-Pérez
Winner of the Peckham 24 open call.
Peckham 24, Photo London, September 2021.
Selections from the series Shimmer, Shimmer, in the exhibition, The Horizon and Everything Within It
Lorenzo Tiburgo and Sarah Van Dyck
The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO, January 14 - March 26
Stephanie Syjuco: Double Vision
Curated by Kristen Gaylord
Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, through January 2023
Komatsu Hiroko: Creative Destruction
Curated by Carrie Cushman, the Linda Wyatt Gruber ‘66 Curatorial Fellow in Photography
Davis Museum at Wellesley College, September 17-December 13, 2020