On View
ICP at 50
From the Collection, 1845–2019
Through May 6, 2024
International Center of Photography, New York
www.icp.org
ICP at 50 is a thematic exploration of the many processes that comprise the history of the photographic medium, drawn from the International Center of Photography’s holdings. The institution was established in 1974 and the exhibition offers insight into the breadth and depth of its collection which spans from the nineteenth century to the present day. Work by Richard Avedon, Nan Goldin, Deana Lawson, and Andy Warhol is included.
Installation view, ICP at 50: From the Collection, 1845–2019, International Center of Photography, New York, January 24–May 6, 2024. Artwork, left to right: © Nan Goldin, © Zanele Muholi, © Deana Lawson. Photo: Jeenah Moon, courtesy International Center of Photography
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Richard Avedon
Murals
January 19–October 1, 2023
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
www.metmuseum.org
In 1969, Richard Avedon started making portraits with a new camera and a new sense of scale. Trading his handheld Rolleiflex for a larger, tripod-mounted device, he reinvented his studio dynamic. Facing down groups of the era’s preeminent artists, activists, and politicians, he made huge photomural portraits, befitting the subjects’ outsized cultural influence. On the centennial of the photographer’s birth, this exhibition brings together three of these monumental works, some as wide as thirty-five feet. For Avedon, the murals expanded the artistic possibilities of photography, radically reorienting viewers and subjects in a subsuming, larger-than-life view.
Richard Avedon, Outtake from Andy Warhol and members of The Factory, October 9, 1969, 1969 © The Richard Avedon Foundation
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X
A Decade of Collecting, 2012–2022
January 27–May 26, 2023
Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska–Lincoln
sheldonartmuseum.org
X: A Decade of Collecting, 2012–2022 is a survey of artworks acquired for the Sheldon Museum of Art’s collection over the past decade. The chosen works demonstrate the breadth of collecting efforts and are a modest representation of the approximately 1,875 pieces that have entered the museum’s holdings since 2012. The exhibition seeks to present a snapshot of how the collection continues to evolve. Work by Richard Avedon, Nathaniel Mary Quinn, Andy Warhol, and Stanley Whitney is included.
Nathaniel Mary Quinn, Big Bertha, 2015 © Nathaniel Mary Quinn
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Presence
The Photography Collection of Judy Glickman Lauder
September 30, 2022–January 15, 2023
Portland Museum of Art, Maine
www.portlandmuseum.org
Presence aims to capture the full spectrum of the human experience, from the anonymous to the celebrity and from the everyday to era-defining events such as the Great Depression, the Holocaust, and the civil rights movement. With approximately 140 photographs by seventy artists, the exhibition is drawn entirely from the collection of Judy Glickman Lauder. Work by Richard Avedon and Sally Mann is included.
Sally Mann, Emmett, Jessie and Virginia, 1989 © Sally Mann
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American Photography
August 24–November 28, 2021
Albertina, Vienna
www.albertina.at
This exhibition centers on the reimagining of iconography in American photography after 1945, when exaggeratedly idealized landscapes were replaced by everyday imagery that had previously been considered unworthy of portrayal. Some photographers captured the dynamic of big cities through a spontaneous pictorial language that often portrayed American society in a critical light. And, in a contrasting approach, others staged elaborate cinematic tableaux that grappled with photographic reality and illusion as well as with societal developments. Work by Richard Avedon and Gregory Crewdson is included.
Gregory Crewdson, Untitled, 1998–2002 © Gregory Crewdson
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Avedon in Texas
Selections from In the American West
February 25–July 2, 2017
Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas
www.cartermuseum.org
In spring 1979, Richard Avedon went to the Rattlesnake Round-Up in Sweetwater, Texas, and created six evocative portraits that would set the tone for his work of the next five years. In these settings, he discovered people who conveyed through their faces, clothes, and postures not merely hard living but the full embrace of existence, which is evident in this selection of seventeen of the project’s Texas images.
Richard Avedon, Petra Alvarado, factory worker, El Paso, Texas, on her Birthday, April 22, 1982, 1982 © The Richard Avedon Foundation