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Indepth Arts News:
"Street Credibility: Photographs from the 1940s to the 1970s"
2004-01-28 until 2004-09-13
Museum of Contemporary Art, LA
Los Angeles, CA,
USA
Featuring 100 photographs from the 1940s to the
1970s by Diane Arbus, her influences, her peers, and the artists who were
inspired by her vision, Street Credibility examines the period of
contemporary photography when the boundary between what was real and what
was artificially created became increasingly blurred.
Focusing on the
similarity of this generation's subjects and approaches, the exhibition is
organized around visual tropes, such as people inside their homes, the
equation of individuals with their possessions, couples, entertainers, and
spectacles. Included is the work of Larry Clark, Robert Frank, Lee
Friedlander, Charles Gatewood, Les Krims, Danny Lyon, Sally Mann, Bill
Owens, Jeffrey Silverthorne, and Garry Winogrand, as well as a selection of
work by Arbus's predecessors, including Lisette Model, August Sander, and
Weegee. The exhibition will also include photographs by commercial
photographer Theo Ehret who was the house photographer for the Olympic
Auditorium in Los Angeles. In addition to documenting professional
wrestling, Ehret shot erotic female "apartment wrestling" photographs that
were staged in domestic sets constructed in his studio. Ehret's inclusion in
the exhibition is meant to draw attention to the staged-looking quality of
many of this generation's photographs. The exhibition draws primarily upon
MOCA's permanent collection with a selection of works from local
institutions and artists.
IMAGE
Danny Lyon
Sparky and Cowboy (Gary Rogues),
Schererville, Indiana
ca 1960's
Gelatin silver print
11 x 14 in
The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation Photography Collection
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
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