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Contemporary Photographs: Rethinking the Genres

Contemporary Photographs: Rethinking the Genres

Rachel Epp Buller, curator

North Balcony, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas

This exhibition begins with the premise that art historical genres such as still life, landscape, and the nude traditionally have been easily defined and distinctly separate from one another. Contemporary photographers employ such traditional motifs yet also seek to update and blur the boundaries between these categories.

Exhibition images

Works of art

Bernhard Becher (1931–2007); Hilla Becher (born 1934), Blast Furnaces

Craig J. Barber (born 1947), Mekong Central

Virginia Beahan (born 1946); Laura McPhee (born 1958), The Blue Lagoon, Geothermal Pumping Station, Iceland

Zeke Berman (born 1951), Crushed Can and Scratchboard

Tseng Kwong Chi (1950–1990), Graceland, Tennessee

Gregory Conniff (born 1944), Dam at Dundee, Graffiti

Philip-Lorca DiCorcia (born 1951), Japan

Nan Goldin (born 1953), Suzanne and Philippe on the Train, Long Island

Jan Groover (1943–2012), untitled

Wanda Hammerbeck (born 1945), Evidence of Water Not Seen

Bill Jacobson (born 1955), Interim Figure #642

Daniel Kazimierski (born 1949), Cafe at Canal and W. Broadway, New York

Mary Kelly (born 1941), Photo Documentation, Post-Partum Document VI, Pre-writing alphabet, exerque and diary

Gordon Matta-Clark (1943–1978), Splitting

David McDermott (born 1952); Peter McGough (born 1958), Valpinçon Bather, 1907

Ana Mendieta (1948–1985), Untitled: Silueta Series

Patrick A. Nagatani (1945–2017), Miraculous Photo

Kenji Nakahashi (1947–2017), Living Pencils

Han Nguyen (born 1956), untitled

Jon O'Neal (born 1957), The Bonham Project (torso side views)

Jon O'Neal (born 1957), The Bonham Project (arm/chest views)

Rubén Ortiz Torres (born 1964), Apparition in the Hood

Luis González Palma (born 1957), Corazon I (Winged man with heart) (Heart I)

Andres Serrano (born 1950), Madonna and Child II

Michael Spano (born 1949), Fruit/Cup

Neil S. Winokur (born 1945), Crayons

Joel Peter Witkin (born 1939), untitled