This week's openings are all about the group shows. The Sasha Wolf Gallery in NYC is putting up its first group show ever, curated by Wolf and Peter Kayafas and including work by Kayafas, Harry Callahan, William Eggleston, Lee Friedlander, and Katherine Wolkoff. In Our Dreams sounds like a fascinating survey of how photographers dialog with cultural and personal ideas of dreams.
The Brooklyn Museum is going way conceptual in its group photography show called Click! A general call was put out several months ago for photographs, professional and non, that illustrated the idea, "The Changing Face of Brooklyn." They were uploaded to an online storehouse and then the general populace was asked to log on and rate each image. Then the show was hung with sizes dictated by how much the public liked each image.
In Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Photography has put together an interesting show that is appropriate to the summer season: Beyond the Backyard. Another group show, the exhibition includes work from Dorothea Lange, Bill Owens, Larry Sultan, and Todd Deutsch that examines the American ideal of a peaceful domestic backyard and the ways that ideal succeeds and fails to be realized.
~Miki Johnson
(Photo: © Peter Kayafas, "Highpoint, North Carolina, 1993.")
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