Video from the Hammer Contemporary CollectionChinese Photography and Video from the Haudenschild CollectionSelections from the Hammer Contemporary Collectionmore than 150 works in photography, collage, sculpture, and installationphoto-based installations, posters, and filmAtlas, Kruger, Walker: Hammer Contemporary CollectionOver 260 works by more than 100 artists from 15 countriesPhotography and CompositionTommy Hartung / Loretta Fahrenholz / Ed AtkinsTommy Hartung / Loretta Fahrenholz / Ed AtkinsTommy Hartung / Loretta Fahrenholz / Ed Atkins In the trailer for Michelangelo Antonioni's 1966 film Blow-Up, a male voice-over proclaims, "Sometimes reality is the strangest fantasy of all," expressing a sentiment often used to justify the transposition of real-life events into the realms of fictional literature and film. Antonioni was a member of the Italian neorealist movement and was also influenced by the French New Wave, so that by the time Blow-Up was released, an interest in bringing the realities of daily life into fiction was well … moreSmokin’ Jo, 1995. Courtesy of Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York.This is the first retrospective exhibition in the United States of the German photographer Wolfgang Tillmans. One of the most important and distinctive artists to emerge in the 1990s, Tillmans is internationally recognized for creating work that captures evocative, intimate reflections of often overlooked objects and moments in everyday life.
This presentation features Tillmans's photographic and video works drawn from his entire career and includes approximately 300 photographs. His highly di… moreThe Photography of Stephen Shore, 1968-1993The Biographical Landscape: The Photography of Stephen Shore, 1968–1993 presents a rare opportunity to study the rich color prints and photographic projects of one of the most prominent and influential American photographers to emerge in the last half-century. The exhibition comprises approximately 120 works from Stephen Shore’s key series, American Surfaces and Uncommon Places, as well as his later landscape photographs. At the heart of the exhibition is Uncommon Places, Shore’s quintesse… moreThe Last Picture Show features approximately 100 photographs by more than 40 artists, and traces the development of conceptual trends in postwar photographic practice from its first glimmerings in the 1960s in the work of artists such as Bernd and Hilla Becher, Ed Ruscha, and Bruce Nauman to its rise to art world prominence in the work of the Picture Theory artists of the late 1970s and early 1980s, including Sylvia Kolbowski, Richard Prince, and Cindy Sherman. As a major genealogy of the rise o… more |
