Coming
in 2008 and 2009:
Picturing
the Process: Landscape Through Time and Space
July 12, 2008-February 1, 2009
Since its invention in 1839, the unique power of photography has been
utilized to record, create, and inform. Representing selections from
MoPA’s Permanent Collection, Landscape Through Time and Space
is an education based exhibition exploring ideas and issues related
to the landscape.
A
Literacy of Images:
Nancy Newhall and the Art of Photography
Best
known for writing text to accompany the photographs of Ansel Adams and
Edward Weston, Nancy Newhall was also a widely published writer on photography,
conservation, and American culture. During her marriage to Beaumont
Newhall, former director of photography at the Museum of Modern Art,
NY, she substituted for him during his World War II military service.
Newhall initiated a kind of “literacy of images,” which
this exhibition explores through her writing, in relationship to the
actual photographs by the artists she championed. This is a long overdue
homage to a woman who devoted her life to photography largely through
writing. She gave modern language a new way of looking at this dynamic
medium.
Writing
with Light
September 13, 2008 – February 1, 2009
MoPA is proud to present the youth exhibition entitled Writing with
Light, on view from September 13 to February 1, 2009. The exhibition
will illustrate the connection between photography and literacy. Using
the photographic arts as inspiration, students will interpret literary
works of fact and fiction.
Inspired by the exhibition, A Literacy of Images: Nancy Newhall & the Art of Photography, which will be on view concurrently, the exhibition will provide students an opportunity for expression through both a visual and narrative connection by linking the subject of photography with writing. Collected from various schools in San Diego County, a jury of museum staff and field professionals will select the final photographs to be exhibited in September 2008. The exhibition will hang alongside A Literacy of Images: Nancy Newhall & the Art of Photography and will bring together the significance of viewing photography fundamentally through the written word, while offering a new way of perceiving the medium.
Lou Stoumen Award Winners
January
31, 2009- May 17, 2009
In
1991, photographer/filmmaker Lou Stoumen established an endowed gift
to be given to a photographer whose work related in spirit to his own
humanistic style of photography. Launching 2009, MoPA will present three
exhibitions surrounding the legacy of Lou Stoumen: 1) Lou Stoumen: The
Naked Truth, a solo exhibition of photographs by the artist accompanied
by two documentary films which won him Academy Awards. 2) The Stoumen
Legacy: Debbie Fleming Caffery, Kenro Izu, James Nachtwey & Gary
Schneider features photographs from the four past recipients of the
Stoumen Prize — each photographer will exhibit new work created
as a result of this award. 3) The new Lou Stoumen Prize Recipient will
be announced in 2009. A solo exhibition is planned (tentatively) for
this yet-unnamed artist, and will be accompanied by a ceremony. A yet
unnamed celebrity will present the award.
Rock
n' Revolution
May 23, 2009- October 4, 2009
"Rock 'n Revolution" presents over 65 photographs of six rock musicians (Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, Bruce Springsteen, Bono, John Lennon and Joni Mitchell) whose music changed the world. It examines their respective images from early in their careers, and outside of the concert arena, as they began to inhabit the words from their music in the ways in which they presented themselves to the mass media. The exhibition concentrates on the tenuous but powerful combination of image with music whereby fans identified with them. Within these images are notions of "triumphant individualism," authenticity, and anti-Establishment life styles thattranscended ideas of class, gender, ethnicity, and work. Manuscripts from their most famous songs will also be on display.
Beloved
Daughters: Photographs by Fazal Sheikh
October 10, 2008- January 30, 2010
MoPA
presents "Beloved Daughters: Photographs by Fazal Sheikh,"
a provocative exhibition of over 100 photographs by the artist and activist,
Fazal Sheikh. The exhibition unites two projects focused on the women
in India. The first, "Moksha," explores the lives of dispossessed
widows cast out by their families, denying them legal, economic, and
human rights. The second, "Ladli," examines the perils faced
by girls and young women in a changing, modern India, that include domestic
slavery, forced prostitution, and murder. Sheikh pairs intense camera
portraits with testimony from his subjects.
The photographer was born in New York in 1965 and graduated from Princeton
University in 1987, and in 2005 he was awarded a MacArthur Foundation
“genius” grant and the Henri Cartier-Bresson International
Award.
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