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Robert Frank’s and Todd Webb’s parallel 1955 projects to
photograph America are considered in the context of
mid-twentieth-century American culture In 1955 two
photographers were awarded grants from the John Simon Guggenheim
Foundation to embark on trips across the United States. Robert
Frank (1924–2019) drove coast to coast, photographing the
highways, bars, and people that formed the basis for his widely
admired publication The Americans (1958). Todd Webb (1905–2000)
walked across the country, searching for “vanishing Americana and
what is taking its place.” Unaware of each other’s
work, the photographers produced strikingly similar images of the
highway, parades, and dim, smoky barrooms. Yet while Frank’s
grainy, off-kilter style revealed many inequities of American life,
Webb’s carefully composed images embraced clear detail and
celebrated the individual oddities of Americans and their locales.
This revelatory book is the first to publish Webb’s 1955
photographs and connects these parallel projects for the first
time. More than one hundred images accompany text illuminating
Frank’s and Webb’s different perspectives and approaches to
similar subjects and places; the difference in reception of
Frank’s iconic work and Webb’s relatively unknown series; and
the place of the road trip in shaping American identity at
midcentury. Published in association with the Museum of
Fine Arts, Houston Exhibition Schedule: Museum of
Fine Arts, Houston (October 8, 2023–January 7, 2024)
Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover,
Massachusetts (February 10–July 30, 2024)
Brandywine Museum of Art, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania (February
8–May 4, 2025)
Moon Shine explores musical heritage in America's Appalachian
region. Old-time music, faith, and story-telling all inform this
portrait of place. These photographs were made along the serpentine
mountain roads between Signal Mountain and Cumberland Gap, tracing
Tennessee's Cumberland Trail corridor. Listening to the sounds of
revelation springing from deep in the hollow, Boillot considered
how this might translate to visual imagery. Boillot is still
somewhere out there on one of those roads and she is still
listening.
A groundbreaking introduction to the photographic work of an iconic
modern artist The pathbreaking artist Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986)
is revered for her iconic paintings of flowers, skyscrapers, animal
skulls, and Southwestern landscapes. Her photographic work,
however, has not been explored in depth until now. After the death
of her husband, the photographer Alfred Stieglitz, in 1946,
photography indeed became an important part of O'Keeffe's artistic
production. She trained alongside the photographer Todd Webb,
revisiting subjects that she had painted years before-landforms of
the Southwest, the black door in her courtyard, the road outside
her window, and flowers. O'Keeffe's carefully composed photographs
are not studies of detail or decisive moments; rather, they focus
on the arrangement of forms. This is the first major investigation
of O'Keeffe's photography and traces the artist's thirty-year
exploration of the medium, including a complete catalogue of her
photographic work. Essays by leading scholars address O'Keeffe's
photographic approach and style and situate photography within the
artist's overall practice. This richly illustrated volume
significantly broadens our understanding of one of the most
innovative artists of the twentieth century. Published in
association with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Exhibition
Schedule: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (October 17, 2021-January
17, 2022) Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy,
Andover, MA (February 26-June 12, 2022) Denver Art Museum (July
3-November 6, 2022) Cincinnati Art Museum (February 3-May 7, 2023)
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