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…
RICHARD BILLINGHAM, RAY’S A LAUGH, 1996
First published in 1996 to enormous acclaim, Richard Billingham’s Ray’s a Laugh is one of the most significant photobooks of the turn of the twentieth century, as well as a cornerstone work of the Young British Artists generation..
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…
ADRIAN PIPER, WHAT WILL BECOME OF ME, 1985-ONGOING
In the 1980s Piper’s interests in systemic oppression, racism, and social justice took a contemplative and self-referential direction. What Will Become of Me consists of twelve honey containers filled with the artist’s hair and two smaller jars holding bits and pieces of fingernails and dried skin, arranged as reliquaries on a wooden shelf…
THERESA HAK KYUNG CHA, MOUTH TO MOUTH, 1975
English and Korean words appear on the screen, a mouth forms the shape of an "O," then opens and closes. Is this the beginning of language? In this early videotape, Cha isolates and repeats a simple, physical act — a mouth forming the eight Korean vowel graphemes — so that this ordinary action becomes something primal and riveting…
SIR ISAAC JULIEN, LESSONS OF THE HOUR, 2019
Lessons of the Hour is a poetic meditation on the life and times of Frederick Douglass, the ten-screen film installation proposes a contemplative journey into Douglass' zeitgeist and its relationship to contemporaneity…
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…
JOEL MEYEROWITZ, POP
Pop chronicles the journey of three generations of Meyerowitz men on a road trip from Florida to the Bronx, in exploration of their familial roots…
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…