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Contemporary Photographs: Rethinking the Genres

Contemporary Photographs: Rethinking the Genres

Rachel Epp Buller, curator

October 15, 2000–December 12, 2000

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

Blast Furnaces, Bernhard Becher; Hilla Becher — Bernhard Becher; Hilla Becher

Blast Furnaces, 1996

Mekong Central, Craig J. Barber — Craig J. Barber

Mekong Central, 1998

The Blue Lagoon, Geothermal Pumping Station, Iceland, Virginia Beahan; Laura McPhee — Virginia Beahan; Laura McPhee

The Blue Lagoon, Geothermal Pumping Station, Iceland, 1988

Crushed Can and Scratchboard, Zeke Berman — Zeke Berman

Crushed Can and Scratchboard, 1992

Graceland, Tennessee, Tseng Kwong Chi — Tseng Kwong Chi

Graceland, Tennessee, 1979

Dam at Dundee, Graffiti, Gregory Conniff — Gregory Conniff

Dam at Dundee, Graffiti, 1993

Japan, Philip-Lorca DiCorcia — Philip-Lorca DiCorcia

Japan, 1994

Suzanne and Philippe on the Train, Long Island, Nan Goldin — Nan Goldin

Suzanne and Philippe on the Train, Long Island, 1985

untitled, Jan Groover — Jan Groover

untitled, 1991

Evidence of Water Not Seen, Wanda Hammerbeck — Wanda Hammerbeck

Evidence of Water Not Seen, 1995

Interim Figure #642, Bill Jacobson — Bill Jacobson

Interim Figure #642, 1993

Cafe at Canal and W. Broadway, New York, Daniel Kazimierski — Daniel Kazimierski

Cafe at Canal and W. Broadway, New York, 1987

Photo Documentation, Post-Partum Document VI, Pre-writing alphabet, exerque and diary, Mary Kelly — Mary Kelly

Photo Documentation, Post-Partum Document VI, Pre-writing alphabet, exerque and diary, 1979

Splitting, Gordon Matta-Clark — Gordon Matta-Clark

Splitting, 1974–1975

Valpinçon Bather, 1907, David McDermott; Peter McGough — David McDermott; Peter McGough

Valpinçon Bather, 1907, 1988

Untitled: Silueta Series, Ana Mendieta — Ana Mendieta

Untitled: Silueta Series, 1978

Miraculous Photo, Patrick A. Nagatani — Patrick A. Nagatani

Miraculous Photo, 1994

Living Pencils, Kenji Nakahashi — Kenji Nakahashi

Living Pencils, 1979

untitled, Han Nguyen — Han Nguyen

untitled, 1997

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

The Bonham Project (torso side views), 1989

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

The Bonham Project (arm/chest views), 1989

Apparition in the Hood, Rubén Ortiz Torres — Rubén Ortiz Torres

Apparition in the Hood, 1992

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

Corazon I (Winged man with heart) (Heart I), 1989

Madonna and Child II, Andres Serrano — Andres Serrano

Madonna and Child II, 1989

Crayons, Neil S. Winokur — Neil S. Winokur

Crayons, 1994

untitled, Joel Peter Witkin — Joel Peter Witkin

untitled, 1987