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15/9/2006

So the Story Goes

The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago

Photographs by Tina Barney, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Nan Goldin, Sally Mann, and Larry Sultan

Curator Katherine Bussard, Assistant Curator of Photography

Photography has always been the perfect medium for recording one's life. Contemporary artists Tina Barney, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Nan Goldin, Sally Mann, and Larry Sultan use their daily experiences as their inspiration and offer viewers a glimpse into their private realities. Just as no two people keep the same diary, each of these five photographers has created highly personal, shifting, and intriguing visions of his or her life.

Tina Barney spent fifteen years photographing her family and friends in their affluent domestic surroundings. Despite their familiarity, however, these photographs are not moments casually observed but rather are carefully orchestrated and executed under Barney’s direction. Philip-Lorca diCorcia selected various photographs he made over a period of more than twenty years, sequencing them to create a highly personal and idiosyncratic story of his life. For more than three decades, Nan Goldin’s photographs have unabashedly embraced the intensity of life, depicting all its messy emotions and events. Sally Mann turned to the strange and fantastic world of her children to make her notorious photographs in the late 1980s and early 1990s—now a wonderful contrast to her newest work, which depicts her children’s mature faces. Looking in the other direction generationally, Larry Sultan collaborated with his parents, photographing them in the post-corporate, retirement phase of their life while at the same time appropriating and repurposing old family snapshots and home movies.

CATALOGUE
A 128-page catalogue, published by Yale University Press, will accompany the exhibition. The catalogue, available in the Museum Shop for $24.95, features an introductory essay by exhibition curator Katherine Bussard as well as entries on each of the five artists and over 90 full-color reproductions.

ORGANIZER
The Art Institute of Chicago

Opening Day Programs
Opening Day Celebration
September 16, 2006
11:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Fullerton Hall
Join featured artists Tina Barney, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Nan Goldin, Sally Mann, and Larry Sultan at the Art Institute for special opening-day artist's talks in celebration of the exhibition So the Story Goes. Each artist will discuss his or her work, and booksignings will follow each presentation.

World AIDS Day Programs
Lectures
Gallery Talks
Curators' Talks
Tuesday, September 19 12:00 p.m.
Friday, September 21 12:00 p.m.

Student and Teacher Programs
University Night
Fall 2006

* Teacher Workshop: Photography and Creative Writing
Thursday, October 26 4:00-7:00 p.m.

Image: Nan Goldin, Self-portrait 1978-1994/1995. Sixteen chromogenic color prints, 138 x 192 cm

The Art Institute of Chicago
The museum is located at 111 South Michigan Avenue, at the intersection of Michigan Avenue and Adams Street, on the eastern edge of Chicago’s famous downtown Loop.
MUSEUM HOURS
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Tuesday 10:30-5:00
Wednesday 10:30-5:00
Thursday 10:30-8:00 (free admission 5:00-8:00)
Friday 10:30-5:00
Saturday 10:00-5:00
Sunday 10:00-5:00

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