New Photography 2011
28 September 2011 - 16 January 2012
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Roxie and Raquel. 2010
Pigmented inkjet print
30 15/16 x 38 9/16" (78.6 x 97.9 cm).
The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Fund for the Twenty-First Century |
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NEW PHOTOGRAPHY 2011
28 September, 2011 – 16 January, 2012
This year, MoMA's annual New Photography series expands to feature the
work of six artists, with the aim of capturing the diversity and
international scope of contemporary photographic work. New Photography
2011: Zhang Dali, Moyra Davey, George Georgiou, Deana Lawson, Doug
Rickard, Viviane Sassen includes the work of Dali (China), who uses
original source materials, including Chinese archives, books, and
periodicals, to trace the lineage of propaganda made during Mao Tse
Tung’s Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution; Davey (Canada), whose
mailed-photograph grids feature the stamps, postmarks, and return
addresses that have accreted on each photograph—analog elements that are
particularly unique in these digital times; Georgiou (England), who
looks at modern-day Turkey as it seeks to hold on to its traditions and
landscape amid the oncoming wave of Westernization and development;
Lawson (U.S.), whose work showcases the African American experience,
with a particular emphasis on the human figure and form, in powerfully
intimate portraits of people from all walks of life; Rickard (U.S.),
whose photographs document the blurred faces of people and crumbling
American cities as captured by the Google Streetview lens, and explore
issues of poverty, race, and privacy; and Sassen (The Netherlands), who
incorporates images of the people and places of the African continent in
an attempt to recapture her surreal dreams and memories of growing up
in Kenya. The artists in New Photography 2011 approach image-making from
very different perspectives, making for a truly dynamic combination.
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