Here are the guidelines for the essay
Each student will prepare a 5-page paper on a photographic exhibition that has affected the landscape of the medium.
The presentation should demonstrate a high level of research that develops a strong argument for the historical
importance of your selected photography-based exhibition. Don’t just Google the show and write everything down you
see! Go to the library, look at the catalog, research articles written about the exhibition.
Some things to address:
–The curator of the exhibition, other shows he/she has curated, background etc.
–The venue where the exhibition took place
–How the show was received in the press at the time and whether or not that reception changed since then.
–How the work was installed, if it was a conventional photographic installation, how it worked in the space, if there was
significant exhibition design and how this influenced the understanding of the work
–The individual artists in the show, if they knew of each other and were playing off each other’s work, if they were of the
same time period/movement, if they were alive or dead.
–How the work influenced the history of the medium, subsequent artists/exhibitions that came out of this exhibition or
seemed linked to it.
Pick one from the list
Exhibitions to write about• “Road to Victory” at MoMA 1942
• The Family of Man at MoMA 1955
• Robert Frank: Photographer Art Institute of Chicago 1961
• The Photographer’s Eye curated by John Szarkowski, MOMA, 1964
• New Documents at MoMA 1967
• Photography into Sculpture curated by Peter Bunnell, MOMA 1970
• Stephen Shore, Metropolitan Museum of Art 1971
• Pictures curated by Douglas Crimp, Artists Space, New York, 1977
• “Recollections: Ten Women of Photography at ICP, 1979
• “The Perfect Moment” Robert Mapplethorpe, ICA 1989
• Projects 23: Lorna Simpson, 1990
• Pleasures And Terrors Of Domestic Comfort MoMA NY 1991
• Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art at The Whitney 1994
• Roy DeCarava: A Retrospective MoMA NY 1996
• Nan Goldin Retrospective, The Whitney 1996
• Jim Goldberg “Raised by Wolves” SF MoMA 1997
• Another Girl, Another Planet, Lawrence Rubin Greenberg Van Doren Fine Art, 1999
• The Last Picture Show curated by Douglas Fogle, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 2004
• WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution at MOCA 2007
• Catherine Opie “American Photographer” The Guggenheim, 2008
• Erik Kessels’s 2011 show “24 Hrs in Photos” at The Foam Museum
• Carrie Mae Weems: Three Decades of Photography and Video, The Guggenheim 2014
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