Collection Exhibitions
Collecting Photography
Completed1/29/2016 - 3/26/2016
Organizing institution: Krannert Art Museum at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Primary Curator: Kathryn Koca Polite
Krannert Art Museum holds an impressive collection of approximately 5,000 works on paper, of which photography is a significant portion. The collection’s strengths—examples of more formalist photographic conventions—include works by Berenice Abbott, Arnold Crane, Walker Evans, Danny Lyon, Edward Weston, and Garry Winogrand. The collection has been built over time through the generosity of numerous donors and strategic purchases. In the exhibition Collecting Photography, recent acquisitions from the past ten years give gallery visitors insight into Krannert Art Museum’s current collecting efforts, as the museum actively acquires work by international artists who are interrogating social, political, and environmental concerns. It also highlights modern and contemporary artists who, rather than pursuing formalist approaches, have pushed against accepted conventions of photography, experimenting with a variety of techniques.
- Krannert Art Museum 1/29/2016 - 3/26/2016
- Amy Barkow (Great Fall, MT, USA, 1972 - )
- Andy Warhol (Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 1928 – 1987, New York, NY, USA)
- Annette Lemieux (Norfolk, VA, USA, 1957 - )
- Bai Guanghua (China, 1972 - )
- Donna Ferrato (Waltham, MA, USA, 1949 - )
- Harold Eugene Edgerton (Fremont, NE, USA, 1903 - 1990, Cambridge, MA, USA)
- Joel Ross (TX, USA, 1966 - )
- Jonathan Sadler (Sacramento, CA, USA, 1965 - )
- Luke Batten (Santa Maria, CA, USA, 1968 - )
- Luke Batten & Jonathan Sadler (active United States, 1993 - )
- Sam Jury (United Kingdom, 1974 - )
- Shengyu Lai (China, 1978 - )
- Susan Rankaitis (Cambridge, MA, USA, 1949 - )
- Tamen (active China, ca. 2002 - )
- William Wegman (Holyoke, MA, USA, 1943 - )
- Xiaogang Yang (Hunan Province, China, 1979 - )
- Yu Haibo (Yongcheng, China, 1962 - )
- Zhao Bandi (Beijing, China, 1966 - )
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