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Introduction

Photography and Place

Contemporary Works from the Museum's Collection
January 23 - April 4, 2004

Since the earliest use of the camera, photography has proved to be an ideal medium through which to convey the unique characteristics of a particular site. The idea of place remains a rich subject for contemporary photographers, who sometimes use unconventional approaches to explore it. The theme of the Museum’s exhibition is that of the annual meeting of the Society for Photographic Education, a professional organization for photographers, teachers, professors, critics, and curators held this year in Rhode Island. Featured are recent gifts and purchases, as well as work by artists associated with RISD and working in Rhode Island.

We are grateful to Hope Saska, graduate student in the Department of History of Art and Architecture, Brown University, who assisted with the organization of the exhibition through an internship at The RISD Museum supported in part by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Jesse H. Metcalf Fund, and the Lisle Museum Fund.

Selected Objects

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Joe Deal

Sunset Beach, California, 1978
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Talbot Neal Rantoul

White Sands, New Mexico, 1979
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Steven B. Smith

Landfill, Malibu, California, 1996
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David T. Hanson

Coal Strip Mine, Power Plant and Waste Ponds, 1984
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Emmet Gowin

Conair Pass, Dingle Peninsula, County Kerry, Ireland, 1978
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Linda Connor

Entwined Buddha, Ayuthaya, Thailand, 1988
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Sally Gall

Thirst, 1999
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Salvatore Mancini

Slaterville Mill, Rhode Island, 1994
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Uta Barth

Field #14, 1996
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Denny Moers

Factory Structures I, Poland, 1999
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Shimon Attie

Almstadtstrasse 5 (formerly Gendaierstrasse 24): Former Jewish residence and hat shop, ca. 1930, 1993
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Sigmar Polke

Cologne Beggars II (Kölner Bettler II), 1972
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Nan Goldin

Vivienne at home, NYC, 1980
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Francesca Woodman

Untitled (figure and door), 1977
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Francesca Woodman

Untitled (sequence), 1977
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Stephen Shore

Yankee Spring Training, 1978
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Carrie Mae Weems

A Place for Him, A Place for Her, 1993
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Annu Palakunnathu Matthew

Noble Savage/Savage Noble, 2001
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Annu Palakunnathu Matthew

Bella, 2001
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Annu Palakunnathu Matthew

Daughter/Step Daughter, 2001
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Carrie Mae Weems

A Place for Him, A Place for Her, 1993
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Carrie Mae Weems

print, 1993
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Carrie Mae Weems

A Place for Him, A Place for Her, 1993
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Carrie Mae Weems

A Place for Him, A Place for Her, 1993

More objects +

Exhibition Checklist

Photography and Place : Contemporary Works from the Museum's Collection

January 23 - April 4, 2004
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