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The Obvious and Beyond: Photographs from the Spencer Museum Collection

Robert Hickerson, curator
Luke Jordan, curator

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

The photographs were selected to show the wide range encompassed by photographic vision; the organization of photographs in the exhibition invites the viewer to make comparisons within narrower ranges of subject matter. The purpose of this exhibition can be posed as the question:

How do we ascribe meaning to, or interpret, a photograph?

Works of art

Jock Sturges (born 1947), Milly Welmoed, Anike and Natalie; Montalivet, France

Edward Sheriff Curtis (1868–1952), Astanihkyi - "Come-singing" - Blood

Edward Sheriff Curtis (1868–1952), Itsipstsinikyi - "Kills-inside" - Piegan

Etienne Carjat (1828–1906), Jules Verne

Etienne Carjat (1828–1906), Alexandre Dumas

Oscar Gustav Rejlander (1813–1875), Alfred Tennyson

Oscar Gustav Rejlander (1813–1875), The Poet's Family at Farringford

Gertrude Stanton Käsebier (1852–1934), untitled (portrait of a girl)

Gertrude Stanton Käsebier (1852–1934), untitled (Mrs. Hermine Turner, Son, and Daughter Mina)

Gunther Sander; August Sander (1876–1964), Student Teacher, Westerwald

Gunther Sander; August Sander (1876–1964), Wife of the Painter Peter Abelen

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

Gunther Sander; August Sander (1876–1964), Hod Carrier, Cologne

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

Diane Arbus (1923–1971); Neil Selkirk (born 1947), Anderson Hays Cooper, son of Gloria Vanderbilt and Wyatt Cooper

Diane Arbus (1923–1971); Neil Selkirk (born 1947), untitled (No. 7)

Andy Warhol (1928–1987), Self-portrait

Roger Fenton (1819–1869), Lieut. Col. Hallewell, His Day's Work Over

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

International News Photo, "New York...The blood-spattered bodies of Joseph Amberg, and of Morris Kessler, alleged Brooklyn hoodlums, shown lying on the floor at a Brooklyn garage..."

Marion Palfi (1907–1978), Chicago, 1964, School boycott ("Man dreams of himself as a human being then turns and kills his dream." Lillian Smith.)

Lewis Wickes Hine (1874–1940), Accidents: And so They Pay with a Maimed Life

Jim Goldberg (born 1953), untitled

Carl Fischer (1924–2023), Jack Ruby's Carousel Nightclub, Andrew Armstrong, bartender and Sherry Lynn and Diana Hunter, strippers

Garry Winogrand (1928–1984), New York City

William Henry Jackson (1843–1942), The Garden of the Gods

Ansel Adams (1902–1984), Canyon de Chelly National Monument, Arizona (#28)

Art Sinsabaugh (1924–1983), Chi. LA #155

John Pfahl (born 1939), Triangle Bermuda

Francis Joseph Bruguière (1879–1945), untitled

Man Ray (1890–1976), Rayograph #182

Aaron Siskind (1903–1991), Lima 99

Frederick Sommer (1905–1999), Moon Culmination

Todd Walker (1917–1998), Twins

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

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

Joel Peter Witkin (born 1939), untitled

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

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