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Picturing Love: Photography’s Pursuit of Intimacy @ Katonah Museum of Art

Goldin, Nan

Picturing Love: Photography’s Pursuit of Intimacy
March 19 to June 25, 2017

OPENING RECEPTION: Saturday, March 18

Inspired by Nan Goldin’s The Hug (1980) and divided into sections that represent kissing, holding, mothering, among other themes, Picturing Love includes works by renowned artists as well as lesser known and anonymous authors; indeed the snapshot era of the early twentieth century produced some of the most indelible images in the exhibition. Scenes of coupling are complemented by mother-child pictures made in the late nineteenth century, when subjects were frozen in place for prolonged exposures that added a formality to even the closest of familial relationships. The majority of the works in the exhibition foreground constructs of intimacy within the confines of domestic and personal space. Questioning the dynamic and orientation of the observer to the observed, the works stage a multiplicity of desire—performed by the photographer, the photographed, and the viewer. Featured artists include Tracey Baran, Brassai, Zackary Drucker and Rhys Ernst, Hashem el Madani, Nan Goldin, Laura Letinsky, Richard Renaldi, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, and James Van Der Zee.

Katonah Museum of Art
134 Jay Street, Katonah, NY 10536.


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