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KENNETH JOSEPHSON @ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

Kenneth Josephson, Chicago, 1972. Gelatin silver print; 4 ¾ x 7 in.

PICTURE FICTION: KENNETH JOSEPHSON AND CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY
Apr 28–Dec 30, 2018

“Josephson has spent his career carefully examining the building blocks of photography and has influenced artists of all kinds. He was exposed to the experimental pedagogy of László Moholy-Nagy as a student at Illinois Institute of Technology’s Institute of Design, where he also studied with pioneers of photography Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind. Josephson later went on to teach at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago for nearly 40 years. The title, Picture Fiction, which comes from a work in the exhibition by Robert Cumming, distills Josephson’s skill at bending the truth in order to expose the inner workings of photographic images.”

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago


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