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Unsettled: Photography and Politics in Contemporary
Art presents work by nine artists who used photography to address some of
the most salient political and social issues of the late 1970s through the early
1990s, including feminism, racism, the AIDS crisis, and gay
activism.
While activist and political art of the 1980s was not limited to photography,
photographs were nearly always at the center of discussion because of the
medium’s direct connection to real-world things, bodies, and events.
Artists who embraced photography’s singular capacity to unsettle the
viewer did so through a broad range of techniques. Featuring works by Nan
Goldin, Peter Hujar, Barbra Kruger, Zoe Leonard, Robert Mapplethorpe, Andres
Serrano, Lorna Simpson, Carrie Mae Weems, and David Wojnarowicz, Unsettled
looks at a diverse range of pictorial strategies and invites viewers to
consider why some of this art still causes controversy, twenty or thirty years
after it was
made.
for full release and
press images.
Inquiries:
Gigi Lamm
Senior Press Officer
(215) 684-7860
gigi.lamm@philamuseum.org
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credit:
We Are Your Circumstantial Evidence
Barbara Kruger, American
1982
Gelatin silver prints
Framed (a-c): 49 x 97 x 2 inches (124.5 x 246.4 x 5.1 cm)
Gift of Henry S. McNeil, Jr., 1985
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