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Modern Photographs ~ The Machine, the Body and the City ~ at Parrish Art Museum

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Monday, 22 September 2008 01:58

Hiroshi Sugimoto (Japanese, born 1948) - Radio City Music Hall, 1977 - Gelatin silver print 16 1/2 x 2 1/2 inches Collection Miami Art Museum, promised gift of Charles Cowles - © 2008 Hiroshi Sugimoto, Courtesy Sonnabend Gallery, NY

Southampton, NY - This exhibition traces the evolution of photography in the 20th and 21st centuries, from early Pictorialist works that mimic the moodiness of late 19th-century painting, through the Modern formal experimentations of the Constructivist and Bauhaus schools, to the documentary ethos of mid-century America and the large-scale, staged tableaux of our own time. As indicated by its title, the exhibition also examines three prominent themes highlighted by the selection: depictions of the metropolis, modern machinery, and the human figure. On view at the Parrish Art Museum though 30 November, 2008.

A number of works highlight the relationship between photography and other art forms, including portraits of such prominent artists as Henri Matisse, Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol and Robert Rauschenberg.

Among the photographers represented in the exhibition are Berenice Abbott, Diane Arbus, Eugène Atget, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans, Lee Friedlander, Bill Jacobson, André Kertész, William Klein, Sally Mann, Robert Mapplethorpe, Duane Michals, Irving Penn, Robert Rauschenberg, Man Ray, Aleksandr Rodchenko, Andres Serrano, Cindy Sherman, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Sam Taylor-Wood, Andy Warhol, and Gary Winogrand.

Vik Muniz - Prison III, The Round Tower - 2002 Dye-destruction print 40 x 30 inches - Collection Miami Art Museum, promised gift of Charles Cowles. © 2008 Vik MunizModern Photographs: The Machine, the Body and the City is organized by Miami Art Museum and guest curated by Andy Grundberg, the Administrative Chair of Photography at the Corcoran College of Art and Design in Washington, D.C. The exhibition is supported by MAM’s Annual Exhibition Fund.

The Parrish Museum’s anchoring galleries will feature artists who figure prominently in the collection, like William Merritt Chase, a painter of Impressionist landscapes, portraits and still lifes, and Fairfield Porter, known for his realist depictions of the sea and coastal fields bathed in an unmistakably American light.

Envisioning the museum as a social destination for the village, the architects have also included a cafe, movie theater and shop. Mr. Close, the artist, said the new Parrish would give the local art a chance to shine. Visit : www.parrishart.org



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