“Sisters IV” from Miscegenated Family Album (Lorraine, with Nefertiti’s sister Mutnedjmet) looked stunning here. And Roxanna Marcocci’s brilliant, transformative exhibit was one of the decade’s best. DLK’s review provides a summary of record.
by DLK Collection, review posted August 11, 2011
The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today @MoMA
JTF (just the facts): A massive, thematic group show, displayed in a series of 8 connected rooms on the 6th floor of the museum. The exhibit includes 340 works by 110 artists and photographers, covering the period from 1839 to the present. A special exhibition website has been created (here) and a hardback catalog is available in the museum store for $55 (here). The exhibit was curated by Roxana Marcoci. Unfortunately, no photography was allowed inside the exhibit, so there are no installation shots for this show. Aside from the image at right (taken outside the exhibit itself), the
single images that accompany this review were taken from the MoMA website.
The exhibition is divided into ten (10) discrete sections; sometimes a theme fills an entire room, in other cases, an idea takes up an adjacent wall or two. The following photographers have been included in the show, with the number of works on view in parentheses:
I. Sculpture in the Age of Photography
Adolphe Bilordeaux (1)
Brassaï (1)
Jan De Cock (2)
Théodule Devéria (1)
Ken Domon (1 diptych)
Maxine Du Camp (1)
Elliott Erwitt (1)
Roger Fenton (1)
Larry Fink (1)
François-Alphonse Fortier (1)
Ann Hamilton (1)
Alphonse Eugène Hubert (1)
Frances Benjamin Johnston (1)
Clarence Kennedy (6)
André Kertész (4, 1 magazine)
Barbara Kruger (1)
Louise Lawler (1)
An-My Lê (1)
Charles Nègre (2)
Lorraine O'Grady (1 diptych)
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