Unpackaging Product PhotographyMaxime Du Camp’s Photographs of the Eastern Mediterranean and North Africa In 1969, Richard Avedon was at a crossroads. After a five-year hiatus, the photographer started making portraits again, this time with a new camera and a new sense of scale. Trading his handheld Rolleiflex for a larger, tripod-mounted device, he reinvented his studio dynamic. Instead of dancing around his subjects from behind a viewfinder, as he had in his lively fashion pictures, he could now stand beside a stationary camera and meet them head-on. Facing down groups of the era’s preeminen… more Bernd and Hilla Becher (1931-2007, 1934-2015) are among the most important artists of the second half of the 20th century. Since the 1960s, their works have provided decisive impetus for photography, art and also generally for dealing with our culture, economy, science and society. For more than 50 years, the artist couple has devoted themselves to the subject of the industrial landscape, the functional buildings and constructions of the mining industry in Western Europe and North America. They … moreThe Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee CollectionThe Moon in the Age of Photography Photographs from the 1940s and 1950sWorks by Eva Kot'átková and Rachel HarrisonWilliam Wegman and California ConceptualismAdolf de Meyer Photographsmajor retrospective including painting, drawing, photography, and video The exhibition will trace the full trajectory of the color street photography pioneer’s career from his early work as a photojournalist in the late 1960s through his last unpublished projects of the late 1990s. Using a handheld camera and color slide film, Singh recorded India’s dense milieu in complex frieze-like compositions, teeming with incident, fractured by reflections, and pulsating with opulent color. He embraced color as part of a continuous Indian aesthetic tradition that r… moreContemporary Photographs from The Met CollectionContemporary Photographs and VideoRecent Photographs and Video from the Met CollectionJo Ractliffe's Photographs of Angola and South AfricaStaged Photography from the Met CollectionPhotographic Portraits from West AfricaPhotography and ConcealmentPhotography and Daily Life Since 1969Manipulated Photography in the Digital AgeManipulated Photography Before PhotoshopSixty Artists, Fifty YearsPhotography, Film and VideoContemporary Photographs from the CollectionMore than 160 works by 30 artistsPhotographic Portrait of Germany
 The Howard Gilman GalleryAlthough Richard Avedon first earned his reputation as a fashion photographer, his greatest achievement has been his stunning reinvention of the genre of photographic portraiture. Featuring approximately 180 works, this exhibition will span the artist’s entire career, from his earliest portraits in the late 1940s through his most recent work. At the core of the installation will be a powerful group of portraits of many of the key artistic, intellectual, and political figures from the late 1950… more |
