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The Body and the Lens: Photography 1839 to the Present

John Pultz, curator

Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, State University of New York–New Paltz, New Paltz, New York

The exhibition traces the image of the body from early tintypes through classic works by masters of the medium to the artistic experiments of today. An exhibition drawn from the book of the same title by the Spencer's curator of photography, John Pultz. Many of the works are from the Spencer's permanent collection. Organized and circulated by Exhibits USA.

Works of art

Laure Albin-Guillot (1879–1962), untitled (male nude)

Diane Arbus (1923–1971); Neil Selkirk (born 1947); Doon Arbus (born 1945), Campers at Camp Lakecrest for overweight girls, Dutchess County, New York

Diane Arbus (1923–1971), Tattooed Man at a Carnival, Md.

Jean-François Bauret (born 1952), First Telltale signs that the French sun may be sinking on the French Empire as well - Frank Protopapas

Hans Bellmer (1902–1975), La Poupée (The Doll)

Ernest James Bellocq (1873–1949); Lee Friedlander (born 1934), Seated Woman in Tights with Hands Behind Head

Bill Brandt (1904–1983), Nude, East Sussex Coast

Brassaï (1899–1984), Brothel, Rue Quincampoix, Paris ca. 1932

Brassaï (1899–1984), Odalisque (Woman of the Harem)

Larry Burrows (1926–1971), At a First-Aid Center during Operation Prairie, also known as Reaching Out

Claude Cahun (1894–1954), untitled (self-portrait)

Harry Callahan (1912–1999), Eleanor, Chicago

John Coplans (1920–2003), Self-portrait (Seated Figure, No. 1)

Robert Doisneau (1912–1994), Le Baiser du Trottoir (Kiss on the Sidewalk)

Frantisek Drtikol (1883–1961), untitled (portrait of a young woman)

Reed Estabrook (born 1944), Educational Dilemma: To Cheat

Walker Evans (1903–1975), Sharecropper's Family, Hale County, Alabama

Louis Faurer (1916–2001), Freudian Handclasp

Robert Frank (1924–2019), Window Display, Hubert's Museum, NY

Lee Friedlander (born 1934), Topless Wedding in Los Angeles; reception followed

Eugene Omar Goldbeck (1892–1986), Indoctrination Division, Air Training Command, Lackland Air Base, San Antonio, Texas

Sid Grossman (1915–1955), Coney Island

Guerrilla Girls (active 1985–present), Do women have to be naked to get into the Met. Museum?

David Octavius Hill (1802–1870); Robert Adamson (1821–1848); Jessie Bertram, Edinburgh Ale

Lewis Wickes Hine (1874–1940), Bolting Up a Big Turbine

Orval Hixon (1884–1982), Beth Beri, Vaudeville Dancer

George Hoyningen-Huene (1900–1968), untitled

Bill Jacobson (born 1955), Interim Figure #642

Kenneth Josephson (born 1932), Drottningholm, Sweden

André Kertész (1884–1985), Distorted Nude #40

George Platt Lynes (1907–1955), untitled (nude woman)

Ervin Marton (1912–1968), untitled

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

Ray Krueger Metzker (1931–2014), Couplets-Atlantic City

Joel Meyerowitz (born 1938), Fallen Man, Paris

Eadweard Muybridge (1830–1904), Plate 361

Arnold Newman (1918–2006), An historic picture of the New Frontier

Nicholas Nixon (born 1947), C. C. (December) Boston

Jon O'Neal (born 1957), The Bonham Project (Armpits)

Marion Palfi (1907–1978), Georgia, 1949 or A Gullah Family, Georgia Study

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

Gordon Parks (1912–2006), black children with white doll

Jon Blumb (born 1956); Joseph Judd Pennell (1866–1922), Madame Sperber Group

Jon Blumb (born 1956); Joseph Judd Pennell (1866–1922), Reynolds, 19th Battery, Fort Riley, 1905

Arthur Rothstein (1915–1985), Dust Storm, Cimarron County, Oklahoma

Sebastião Salgado (born 1944), untitled, from the Serra Pelada Mine

August Sander (1876–1964), Peasant Girls, Westerwald

Arthur S. Siegel (1913–1978), Right of Assembly

Jock Sturges (born 1947), Flore et Ariane; Montalivet, France

Andy Warhol (1928–1987), The Performance Group: Dionysus in 69

Andy Warhol (1928–1987); Wadsworth Atheneum, Race Riot

Weegee (1899–1968), Trampled to Death on Pier after Panic on an Excursion Boat, New York

Carrie Mae Weems (born 1953), Magenta Colored Girl

Thomas Weir (born 1935), Renee Oracle

Edward Weston (1886–1958); Cole Weston, Nude

Minor White (1908–1976), Nude Foot, San Francisco

Daniel S. Williams (born 1942), 101% Nigger

Garry Winogrand (1928–1984), New York City

Joel Peter Witkin (born 1939), untitled

untitled (portrait of a shoemaker/cobbler)

portrait of man wearing eyeglasses

portrait of a roaring man with a chair

untitled (three musicians)

portrait of three Union soldiers

Edward Anthony (1818–1888); Henry Tiebout Anthony (1814–1884), Rebel Artillery Soldiers Killed in the Trenches of Fort Mahone

Edward Anthony (1818–1888); Henry Tiebout Anthony (1814–1884), A Dead Rebel Soldier as He Lay in the Trenches of Fort Mahone

unknown maker, portrait of woman with flowers

Regina DeLuise (born 1959), Cubist Leg, New York

André Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri (1819–1889), Le Peintre Decamps et sa Famille (The Painter Decamps and his Family)

Dr. Harold Eugene Edgerton (1903–1990), Moving Skip Rope

Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864–1952), untitled

Jill Krementz (born 1940), Party at the Electric Circus

Helen Levitt (1913–2009), New York

Barbara Morgan (1900–1992), Martha Graham - Letter to the World

Helmut Newton (1920–2004), Catherine Deneuve, Paris (not published)

Anderson Studio, untitled

Francis Frith and Company (active 1859–1871), untitled