calendario eventi  :: 

X

3/9/2005

Acting out

Neuberger Museum, Harrison

The invented melodrama in contemporary photography

This exhibition features 31 photographs by 14 artists that make use of the long-standing language of melodrama to explore and comment on how we create meaning from a single photographic image.

In recent years, a new manner of contemporary photography has evolved that takes its lead from the ubiquitous melodrama seen in cinema, comic strips, television (soap operas, reality TV), advertising, film stills and photojournalism. This exhibition features 31 photographs by 14 artists that make use of the long-standing language of melodrama to explore and comment on how we create meaning from a single photographic image.

Artists include Tina Barney, Gregory Crewdson, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Anna Gaskel, Tom Hunter, Simen Johan, Justine Kurland, Laura Letinsky, Sharon Lockhart, Adi Nes, Yinka Shonibare, and Janina Tscaape, among others.

A 50-page color catalogue, distributed by University of Washington Press, accompanies the exhibition, which is curated by Kathleen Edwards, Curator of Prints, Drawings, Photographs, and New Media, University of Iowa Museum of Art, and has been organized for the Neuberger Museum of Art by Dede Young, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art.

Image: Philip-Lorca diCorcia, IGOR, 1987, Type C Print. Courtesy Pace/MacGill Gallery, NY

Neuberger Museum
735 Anderson Hill Road
Purchase NY

stampa

permanent link