MARTHA ROSLER, BODY BEAUTIFUL, OR BEAUTY KNOWS NO PAIN, 1966–72
This group of thirty-two photomontages extracts depictions of women’s bodies from popular media sources—glossy print ads and men’s magazines—and reassembles them in ways that upend the original messages...
OWEN MCCARTER, THE THREE EYED FISH
With Industrialization, the landscape of the Housatonic River began to shift dramatically and by the late 1800s thirty dams were in place. Iron and paper mills boomed with no thought towards the environmental effects they might cause...
NELSON MORALES, CROWNS
Since I was a child, I had this fascination for beauty pageants, especially pageant crowns, their symbols and meanings, their beauty, and the variety of them in different cultures. I have previously been portraying transvestite and transgender beauty queens in Muxe culture and was struck by their obsession with becoming a beauty queen...
ALEXIS RUISECO LOMBERA, AQUI AYA, 2017-19
Aqui Aya, 2017-19, is an investigation of place, belonging, and inherited family using self-portraiture. As I cross borders between Cuba and the United States, this series of photographs reflects on displacement as a structure of feeling and an assemblage of family as a world making strategy...
AVION PEARCE, SHADOWS
My intention with Shadows was to very lovingly depict this romance and moment in time. I want to see me more Black lesbian love stories. To read them and to see them in ways that are not just about tragedy and death...
GARY SCHNEIDER, NUDES, 2001-2005
One of today’s most thought-provoking and original artists, South African-born photographer Gary Schneider is best known for Genetic Self-Portrait, which extends the self-portrait beyond the figure into the depths of the elemental nature of the individual...
KELLI CONNELL, PICTURES FOR CHARIS, 2024
Pictures for Charis is loosely based on the life of Charis Wilson and the time she spent with photographer Edward Weston from 1934 - 1945. Using Through Another Lens: My Life with Edward Weston (Wilson’s autobiography) and California and the West (with text written by Wilson and images by Weston) as a guide…
CARMEN WINANT, MY BIRTH, 2018
This work is composed of over two thousand images of women preparing for and in the process of labor and childbirth. Winant is conscious of the ways the work of women is both visible and invisible: the activities shown here are widespread and essential, and yet pictures of them are not common, even in our image-saturated culture…
CHRISTIAN K LEE, ARMED DOESN’T MEAN DANGEROUS (TEXAS)
This work is about my experiences living in Chicago, Illinois. A city that is often related to gun violence. When I look at the news I realized that I only saw people that looked like me around guns that were criminals, but people of other races were depicted as cowboys and farmers. I became curious as to why this injustice-inbalance existed…
IMOGEN CUNNINGHAM, NUDES
Imogen Cunningham decided to become a photographer after seeing the photographs of Gertrude Käsebier. Cunningham grew up in the Pacific Northwest, worked for two years in Edward Curtis's studio, and later operated a successful photography studio in Seattle, Washington. In 1915 she married the painter Roi Partridge and moved to San Francisco…
ELEANOR ANTIN, CARVING: A TRADITIONAL SCULPTURE 1972
A landmark early feminist work, Eleanor Antin’s Carving: A Traditional Sculpture comprises 148 black-and-white photographs documenting the artist’s loss of 10 pounds over 37 days. Every morning she was photographed naked in the same four stances to record her barely perceptible self-induced weight loss…
AN-MY LÊ, DELTA
In her “Delta” series, Lê explored the Vietnam War’s migratory legacy. The color photographs focus on the everyday lives of Vietnamese and Vietnamese American women and girls in Ho Chi Minh City and New Orleans…
DAIDO MORIYAMA, JAPAN, A PHOTO THEATER, 1968
Originally published in 1968 – the year which also saw the launch of the influential Provoke magazine – the book already demonstrates Moriyama’s trademark visual style. On invitation of Japanese writer Shuji Terayama, Moriyama began photographing members of a traveling theater group, adding shots of dwarf show dancers, strip clubs, street performers, fetuses in formaldehyde containers and other motifs…
MARTIN NEWTH, 8 HOURS
The images each record a night’s sleep in different budget motels in the USA during the artist's honeymoon in 2001. The exposure time of the photographs is 8 hours…
WENDY RED STAR, AMNÍA (ECHO), 2021
Photography is an integral aspect of Wendy Red Star’s multi-disciplinary practice. Amnía (Echo) captures Red Star’s singular approach to examining how photography supports the crafting of identity—personal and communal—by interweaving archival and contemporary images with historical narratives…
CLIFTON MOONEY, SELECTED WORKS
Polaroid Photography is a passion, to be completely honest I don’t know where exactly it comes from. A number of things come to mind like the instant gratification, the excitement of what might come out, or in my opinion the only true tangible photography to exist…
MENGWEN CAO, LIMINAL SPACE, 2017-ONGOING
I use tender gaze to explore the beauty and intimacy of queer and trans people of color lives. Joy and resilience exist in everyday life. In quiet moments, we keep becoming…
FÉLIX GONZÁLEZ-TORRES, UNTITLED (BILLBOARD)
Between February 20 and March 18 of 1991, González-Torres mounted the image on 24 billboards to honor the day his love passed away…
JUSTINE KURLAND, GIRL PICTURES
The North American frontier is an enduring symbol of romance, rebellion, escape, and freedom. At the same time, it’s a profoundly masculine myth—cowboys, outlaws, Beat poets…
SUNIL GUPTA, SUN CITY
This project is a fictional narrative loosely based on the 1962 film, "La Jetée" by Chris Marker. We can view it as some "stills" from a film that is "missing."…