Posing Beauty @ NYU
Posted on | August 11, 2009 | No Comments
**Media are invited to the opening reception and book signing on October 8, 2009 from 6-8 p.m.**
NYU Photography & Imaging Department Announces The Opening of
Posing Beauty
Exhibition Dates: September 1st, 2009 through October 18th, 2009
The exhibition will be on view in the Gulf + Western Gallery and in the 8th floor gallery of the Tisch School of the Arts Department of Photography & Imaging, located at 721 Broadway (at Waverly Place). Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. weekdays and noon to 5 p.m. Saturdays. This exhibition is open to the public and admission is free. Photo ID is required when entering the building. For further information, on the exhibition or any of its accompanying events, visit photo.tisch.nyu.edu or call 212/998-1930.
The Department of Photography & Imaging in the Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts announces the opening of Posing Beauty, an exhibition of approximately 80 works (including black and white, color, and digitized photographs, video installations and web-based projects) drawn from public and private collections. The exhibition is accompanied by a book published by W.W. Norton and will travel to various institutions including Williams College Museum of Art, Newark Museum and USC’s Fisher Museum of Art in Los Angeles.*
Posing Beauty explores the contested ways in which African and African American beauty have been represented in historical and contemporary contexts through a diverse range of media including photography, film, video, fashion, advertising, and other forms of popular culture such as music and the Internet. Throughout the Western history of art and image-making, beauty has been idealized and challenged, and the relationship between beauty and art has become increasingly complex within contemporary art and popular culture. Curated by Deborah Willis, University Professor and Professor of Photography and Imaging, this exhibit challenges the relationship between beauty and art by examining the representation of beauty and different attitudes about class, gender, and aesthetics.
The first of three thematic sections, Constructing a Pose, considers the interplay between the historical and the contemporary, between self-representation and imposed representation, and the relationship between subject and photographer. The second theme, Body and Image, questions the ways in which our contemporary understanding of beauty has been constructed and framed through the body. The last section, Modeling Beauty and Beauty Contests, invites a deeper reading of beauty, its impact on mass culture and individuals and how the display of beauty affects the ways in which we see and interpret the world and ourselves.
Artists in the exhibition include but are not limited to: Ifetayo Abdus-Salam, Henry Clay Anderson, Eve Arnold, Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe, Thomas Askew, Anthony Barboza, Petrushka Bazin, Sheila Pree Bright, Renee Cox, Edward Curtis, Bruce Davidson, Mansita Diawara, Lola Flash, Leonard Freed, Lee Friedlander, Todd Gray,Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, Alex Harsley, Charles “Teenie” Harris, Lyle Ashton Harris, Dave Heath, LeRoy Henderson, Jessica Ingram, Lauren Kelley, Russell Lee, Builder Levy, Philippe Levy-Stab, Elaine Mayes, John W. Mosley, Robert McNeill, David Oggi Ogburn, Ken Ramsay, Bayete Ross Smith, Edwin Rosskam, Jeffrey Scales, Robert Sengstacke, Jamel Shabazz, Stephen Shames, Mickalene Thomas, Lewis Watts, F. A. Weaver, Carrie Mae Weems, Wendel White, Carla Williams, Hank Willis Thomas, Theodore Fonville Winans, Garry Winogrand and Ernest Withers.
*The exhibition will travel to
Art Gallery of Hamilton
Hamilton Ontario, Canada
Jan- April 2010
Williams College Museum of Art
Williamstown, MA
Seot 25-Nov 21, 2010
Newark Museum
Newark NJ
Feb 8- May 8, 2011
USC Fisher Museum of Art
Los Angeles, CA
Sept 10-Dec 4, 2011
Tags: Alex Harsley > Anthony Barboza > Bayeté Ross Smith > Bruce Davidson > Builder Levy > Carla Williams > Carrie Mae Weems > Charles "Teenie" Harris > Dave Heath > David Oggi Ogburn > Deborah Willis > Edward Curtis > Edwin Rosskam > Elaine Mayes > Ernest Withers > Eve Arnold > F. A. Weaver > Garry Winogrand > Hank Willis Thomas > Henry Clay Anderson > Ifétayo Abdus-Salam > Jamel Shabazz > Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe > Jeffrey Scales > Jessica Ingram > John W. Mosley > Ken Ramsay > Lauren Kelley > Lee Friedlander > Leonard Freed > Leroy Henderson > Lewis Watts > Lola Flash > Lyle Ashton Harris > Mansita Diawara > Mickalene Thomas > Petrushka Bazin > Philippe Levy-Stab > Renee Cox > Robert McNeill > Robert Sengstacke > Russell Lee > Sheila Pree Bright > Stephen Shames > Theodore Fonville Winans > Thomas Askew > Timothy Greenfield-Sanders > Todd Gray > Wendel White
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