American Photography
Until 28 November 2021
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America’s vast expanses, everyday culture, social landscapes, and urban metropolises: this exhibition centers of American iconography’s post-1945 renewal. Exaggeratedly idealized landscapes were replaced by everyday motifs that had previously been considered unworthy of portrayal. Photographers took road trips and created series portraying American society in a critical light. In capturing the dynamic of big cities, the tendency was to employ a pictorial language that was spontaneous and snapshot-like. And in a contrasting approach, other works involved the staging of elaborate film-like tableaux that served to grapple with photographic reality and illusion as well as with societal developments.
Selected photographers:
Ansel Adams, Robert Adams, Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Lewis Baltz, Tina Barney, William Christenberry, John Coplans, Gregory Crewdson, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, William Eggleston, Mitch Epstein, Walker Evans, Larry Fink, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Nan Goldin, Paul Graham, William Klein, David LaChapelle, Saul Leiter, O. Winston Link, Ryan McGinley, Ray K. Metzker, Joel Meyerowitz, Lisette Model, Cindy Sherman, Stephen Shore, Alec Soth, Joel Sternfeld, Larry Sultan, Weegee, Garry Winogrand
On view from 24 August until 28 November 2021.
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Gregory Crewdson: Untitled, 1998–2002
C-print
(The Albertina Museum, Vienna – The ESSL Collection, Photo: Mischa Nawrata, Vienna © Gregory Crewdson. Courtesy Gagosian)
Stephen Shore: West 9th Avenue, Amarillo, Texas, October 2, 1974
27.7 x 35.3 cm, Silver-dye bleach print
(ALBERTINA, Wien © Stephen Shore. Courtesy 303 Gallery, New York)
Lisette Model: Singer at the Metropole Cafe, New York City, 1946
49.6 × 39.8 cm, Gelatin silver print
(ALBERTINA, Wien | © 2021 Estate of Lisette Model / Courtesy Baudoin Lebon Gallery, Paris and Keitelman Gallery, Brussels)
Lee Friedlander: New York City, 1963
27.9 x 35.4 cm, Gelatin silver print
(The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna – Permanent loan from the Austrian Ludwig Foundation for Art and Science © Lee Friedlander, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, and Luhring Augustine, New York)
Joel Sternfeld: Red Rock State Campground, Gallup, New Mexico, September, 1982
121.9 x 148.6 cm, Digital C-print
(The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna – Permanent loan from the Austrian Ludwig Foundation for Art and Science © Courtesy Joel Sternfeld and Buchmann Galerie, Berlin 2021)
Gregory Crewdson: Untitled, 1998-2002
C-print
(Albertina, Wien – The ESSL Collection, Foto: Mischa Nawrata, Wien © Gregory Crewdson. Courtesy Gagosian)
Philip-Lorca diCorcia: Head #01, 2000
Fujicolor Crystal Archive Print
(Albertina, Wien – The ESSL Collection, Foto: Mischa Nawrata © Philip-Lorca diCorcia)
Nan Goldin: Jimmy Paulette on David's Bike, NYC, 1991, 1991
Silver-dye bleach print
(Albertina, Wien - The ESSL Collection © Nan Goldin. Marian Goodman Gallery | Photo: Peter Kainz)
Cindy Sherman: Untitled Film Still, 1980
Gelatin silver print
(Albertina, Wien - The ESSL Collection, Foto: Franz Schachinger © Cindy Sherman)
Garry Winogrand: Beverly Hills, California, 1978
Gelatin silver print
(ALBERTINA, Wien © The Estate of Garry Winogrand, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco)
Joel Meyerowitz: Red Interior, Provincetown, 1977
C-print
(Ambassador Trevor Dow Traina © Joel Meyerowitz, Courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery)
Robert Adams: Private Home, Colorado Springs, Colorado, 1968-1971
Gelatin silver print
(The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna – Permanent loan from the Austrian Ludwig Foundation for Art and Science © Robert Adams, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco)
C-print (The Albertina Museum, Vienna – The ESSL Collection, Photo: Mischa Nawrata, Vienna © Gregory Crewdson. Courtesy Gagosian)
27.7 x 35.3 cm, Silver-dye bleach print (ALBERTINA, Wien © Stephen Shore. Courtesy 303 Gallery, New York)
49.6 × 39.8 cm, Gelatin silver print (ALBERTINA, Wien | © 2021 Estate of Lisette Model / Courtesy Baudoin Lebon Gallery, Paris and Keitelman Gallery, Brussels)
27.9 x 35.4 cm, Gelatin silver print (The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna – Permanent loan from the Austrian Ludwig Foundation for Art and Science © Lee Friedlander, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, and Luhring Augustine, New York)
121.9 x 148.6 cm, Digital C-print (The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna – Permanent loan from the Austrian Ludwig Foundation for Art and Science © Courtesy Joel Sternfeld and Buchmann Galerie, Berlin 2021)
C-print (Albertina, Wien – The ESSL Collection, Foto: Mischa Nawrata, Wien © Gregory Crewdson. Courtesy Gagosian)
Fujicolor Crystal Archive Print (Albertina, Wien – The ESSL Collection, Foto: Mischa Nawrata © Philip-Lorca diCorcia)
Silver-dye bleach print (Albertina, Wien - The ESSL Collection © Nan Goldin. Marian Goodman Gallery | Photo: Peter Kainz)
Gelatin silver print (Albertina, Wien - The ESSL Collection, Foto: Franz Schachinger © Cindy Sherman)
Gelatin silver print (ALBERTINA, Wien © The Estate of Garry Winogrand, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco)
C-print (Ambassador Trevor Dow Traina © Joel Meyerowitz, Courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery)
Gelatin silver print (The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna – Permanent loan from the Austrian Ludwig Foundation for Art and Science © Robert Adams, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco)