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The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography (1960-1982)
Peter Fischli and David Weiss, The Fire of Uster from Wurst Series, 1979 C-print Collection Walker Art Center, Clinton and Della Walker Acquisition Fund, 1993

The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography (1960-1982)

Vito Acconci » Bas Jan Ader » Giovanni Anselmo » Eleanor Antin » John Baldessari » Bernd & Hilla Becher » Joseph Beuys » Mel Bochner » Christian Boltanski » Marcel Broodthaers » Victor Burgin » Sarah Charlesworth » Bruce Conner » Jan Dibbets » VALIE EXPORT » Hans-Peter Feldmann » Fischli & Weiss » Gilbert & George » Dan Graham » Hans Haacke » Douglas Huebler » Yves Klein » Barbara Kruger » Louise Lawler » Gordon Matta-Clark » Bruce Nauman » Ed Ruscha » Cindy Sherman » Jeff Wall »

Exhibition: 11 Oct 2003 – 11 Jan 2004

Walker Art Center

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MN 55403 Minneapolis

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Tue-Sun 11-17, Thu 11-21

The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography (1960-1982)
Louise Lawler WHY PICTURES NOW 1981

A comet sculpted from a series of photos, an absurd fashion show constructed entirely of sausages, pictures of other famous pictures, a whip made out of passport photos of an artist making faces--what makes these photographic presentations works of art? How is the unique gesture of the artist communicated through the mechanical practice of photography? How have artists transformed our understanding of photography through their experimental uses of the medium? These are just a few of the questions explored in the exhibition The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography, 1960-1982. While artists today feel just as comfortable picking up a camera as they do a paintbrush, this has not always been the case. How did photography become an increasingly popular medium of choice among artists who may or may not consider themselves to be photographers? Focusing on a roughly 20-year period of history, The Last Picture Show addresses this question as well by bringing together more than 200 photographic works by 57 international artists. Each took up the camera as a tool in pursuit of a diverse range of artistic experiments that provocatively intersected with the realms of sculpture, painting, and performance. Cutting a historical swath across a wide range of art practices and movements such as Conceptual Art, Minimalism, Arte Povera, and strategies of image appropriation, The Last Picture Show traces the development of conceptual uses of this medium. The exhibition encompasses photography's first glimmerings in the 1960s in the work of artists such as Bernd and Hilla Becher, Bruce Nauman, and Edward Ruscha to its rise to art-world prominence in the work of the photo-based artists of the late 1970s and early 1980s, including Sherrie Levine, Richard Prince, and Cindy Sherman. The scope of their subjects is diverse and each has used the camera to frame critical explorations of a range of issues. These include the tradition of self-portraiture, the body, landscape, the architecture of the built environment, photography's relationship to painting and sculpture, the intersection of language and vision, and the impact of advertising and mass media. By the end of the 1980s, it had become clear that experimental uses of photography were gaining both momentum and validity within the international art world and helping to reshape the possibilities of contemporary artistic expression. It is this legacy that continues to find its descendants in a new generation of artists using this medium today.

The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography (1960-1982)
Dan Graham HOMES FOR AMERICA (DETAIL) 1966-67
The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography (1960-1982)
Barbara Kruger Untitled (You are not yourself) 1982 Black-and-white photograph, 72 X 48 in. (182.9 X 121.9 cm). Collection Per Skarstedt, New York