American Gothic: Gordon Parks and Ella Watson
Exhibition labels and panels:
GCA242167_GordonParks_Panels V2
GCA242167_GordonParks_SubPanels FINAL
GCA242167_GordonParks_Labels FINAL
Curator Casey Riley’s talk:
photography
Another Look training with Curator Leslie Ureña
Here is the video of our training with Leslie Ureña on Another Look, in the Harrison Photography Gallery.
Diane Arbus, master of photography
From your colleague Kathleen Steiger, a short documentary on the photographer Diane Arbus:
Alec Soth
From your colleague, Kathleen Steiger:
I came across this Youtube video (actually from 4 years ago) with photos and an interview with a Minnesota Artist – Alec Soth…we have some of his works at Mia.
He uses a large format Camera and the images he captures are great. The first video (from SFMoma) speaks of the commission he had to photograph Silicon Valley and “the cloud”.
The second video (MN Original) gives a good deal of background on how and why he does what he does:
One of his pieces is on view at Mia in G373. It is one from his Sleeping by the Mississippi series. Here is a link to his website:
Excavating the Future City: Photographs by Naoya Hatakeyama
From your colleague, Rose Stanley-Gilbert, a New Yorker article on the work of Naoya Hatakeyama:
A Japanese Photographer Traces How Cities Are Built and Destroyed
(Connected to the exhibition, Excavating the Future City: Photographs by Naoya Hatakeyama)
Sources of Strength 2014
Sources of Strength (2014) 8-object set