Reconsidering the Photographic Masterpiece
University of New Mexico Art Museum
On View in the Main Gallery
February 10 to July, 2012
"The sweeping exhibition, Reconsidering the Photographic Masterpiece, curated by Michele Penhall, will present approximately 100 works chosen from the museum’s permanent collection that encompasses the history of photography from 1843 to 2011. The exhibition centers upon the idea of an artist's signature or iconic image from an evolving and changed, historical perspective. Works from the 19th century to the present day by William Henry Fox Talbot, Julia Margaret Cameron, Edward Weston, August Sander, Diane Arbus, Garry Winnogrand, Hilla and Bernd Becher, and Flor Garduño with recent gifts and acquisitions of works by Alfred Stieglitz, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Jayne Hinds Bidaut, John Coplans, Tamas Dezso, Danny Lyon, Alec Soth, and Martin Parr will be included in this important exhibition."
