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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

Emmet Gowin

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

Talbot Neal Rantoul

White Sands, New Mexico, 1979

Carrie Mae Weems

A Place for Him, A Place for Her, 1993

Carrie Mae Weems

A Place for Him, A Place for Her, 1993

Carrie Mae Weems

print, 1993

Carrie Mae Weems

A Place for Him, A Place for Her, 1993

David T. Hanson

Coal strip mine, power plant and waste ponds, 1984

Carrie Mae Weems

A Place for Him, A Place for Her, 1993

Stephen Shore

Yankee Spring Training, 1978

Linda Connor

Entwined Buddha, Ayuthaya, Thailand, 1988

Uta Barth

Field #14, 1996

Denny Moers

Factory Structures I, Poland, 1999

Salvatore Mancini

Slaterville Mill, Rhode Island, 1994

Francesca Woodman

Untitled (figure and door), 1977

Francesca Woodman

Untitled (sequence), 1977

Nan Goldin

Vivienne in the Green Dress, NYC, 1980

Joe Deal

Sunset Beach, California, 1978

Sigmar Polke

Cologne Beggars II (Kölner Bettler II), 1972

Steven B. Smith

Landfill, Malibu, California, 1996

Shimon Attie

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

Sally Gall

Thirst, 1999

Annu Palakunnathu Matthew

Noble Savage/Savage Noble, 2001

Annu Palakunnathu Matthew

Bella, 2001

Annu Palakunnathu Matthew

Daughter/Step Daughter, 2001

More objects +

Exhibition Checklist

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

January 23 - April 4, 2004
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