Summary
With its journalistic style and intimacy with its subjects, the Postwar American Photography section includes Diane Arbus' arresting "A Family One Evening in a Nudist Camp" and [Garry Winogrand]'s evocative "World's Fair, New York City, 1964." Contemporary American photographers Jan Groover and Cindy Sherman build on this tradition, exploring issues of ethnicity, gender and autobiography with large-scale pieces and works that incorporate multiple photographs and superimposed elements. John Shimon and Julie Lindemann's depiction of a young punk in "Trish and Matt Downtown, Manitowoc Wisconsin" is notable in this section, as is Sherman's "Film Still #30."
The 1930s saw the emergence of a number of regional artists who sought to capture the Midwestern landscape through paint and photography. Some of these interpretations are majestic and hopeful (John Steuart Curry's "Madison Landscape 1941," Lois Ireland's "Recess"), others bleakly beautiful (Grant Wood's "January") or unexpectedly moving (Alec Soth's "Cemetery Fountain City, WI," a strangely elegiac depiction of an illuminated filling station at the base of a snow-covered bluff).See the full content of this document
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In Depth shows off MMoCA's impressive permanent collectionLittle less than a year after shaking off its construction dust, the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art presents...See the full content of this document
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