Contemporary Photographs: Rethinking the Genres

Exhibition

Exhibition Overview

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, Hilla Becher
1996
Craig J. Barber
1998
Virginia Beahan, Laura McPhee
1988
Tseng Kwong Chi
1979
Gregory Conniff
1993
Philip-Lorca DiCorcia
1994
Jan Groover
1991
Wanda Hammerbeck
1995
Bill Jacobson
1993
Gordon Matta-Clark
1974–1975
David McDermott, Peter McGough
1988
Ana Mendieta
1978
Patrick A. Nagatani
1994
Kenji Nakahashi
1979
Han Nguyen
1997
Rubén Ortiz Torres
1992
Andres Serrano
1989
Neil S. Winokur
1994
Joel Peter Witkin
1987