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| Man Ray, Rayograph, 1922 |
This exhibition, covering the
period from 1910 to today, offers a critical reassessment of
photography's role in the avant-garde and neo-avant-garde movements—with
a special emphasis on the medium's relation to Dada, Bauhaus,
Surrealism, Constructivism, New Objectivity, Conceptual, and
Post-Conceptual art—and in the development of contemporary artistic
practices.
The shaping of what came to be known as "New Vision" photography bore
the obvious influence of "lens-based" and "time-based" works. El
Lissitzky best summarized its ethos: "The new world will not need little
pictures," he wrote in
The Conquest of Art (1922). "If it needs a mirror, it has the photograph and the cinema."
Bringing together over 250 works from MoMA’s collection, the
exhibition features major projects by Man Ray, László Moholy-Nagy,
Aleksandr Rodchenko, Germaine Krull, Gerhard Rühm, Helen Levitt, Daido
Moriyama, Robert Heinecken, Ed Ruscha, Martha Rosler, Bernd and Hilla
Becher, Philip-Lorca DiCorcia, and Walid Raad, among others.
Photographic history is presented as a multivalent history of distinct
"new visions," rooted in unconventional and innovative exercises that
range from photograms and photomontages to experimental films and
photobooks.
The show closes April 21, 2013. You can go to the MoMA site
HERE
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| Helen Levitt - Projects (detail) 1971 - 1974 |
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| Daido Moriyama - Shimizu, 1967 |
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| Philip-Lorca diCorcia - Marilyn, 28 years old, Las Vegas, Nevada, $30. 1990-92 |
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