Name: Daytime Classes: Contemporary Photography at The Museum of Modern Art
Start: 2018-04-17T11:00
Location: Education Center

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Aïda Muluneh. All in One. 2016. Pigmented inkjet print, 31 1/2 × 31 1/2″ (80 × 80 cm). Courtesy the artist and David Krut Projects. © 2017 Aïda Muluneh

Instructor: David Smucker
4 Tuesdays; registration is open throughout
For more information, please e-mail [email protected]
Price: Nonmember $355, Member $325, Student/Educator/Other Museum Staff $250
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This course presents a survey of modern and contemporary photography, paying particular attention to examples we can see up close in MoMA’s biannual New Photography exhibition, which showcases major contemporary trends, and its retrospective of the groundbreaking color photographer Stephen Shore. Additionally, we will see the importance of photography in documenting performance art, in the exhibition Club 57: Film, Performance, and Art in the East Village, 1978–1983. We will discuss how photographers have preserved the present, captured innovative and beautiful visions, and challenged stereotypical ways of looking at the world.

Bio: David Smucker is an art historian whose research focuses on the history of photography. He has written about the intersection of photography and the American road trip in his dissertation "Street Views: Automotive Vision and Postwar American Photobooks," and has an abiding interest in how photography can tell us about cultural changes through the pictures people choose to take.

This event accompanies Being: New Photography 2018.
This event is part of MoMA Daytime Classes.

Past events

Tue, Apr 17, 2018, 11:00 a.m.

Education Center

The Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Education and Research Building
Tue, Apr 10, 2018, 11:00 a.m.

Education Center

The Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Education and Research Building
Tue, Mar 27, 2018, 11:00 a.m.

Education Center

The Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Education and Research Building
Tue, Mar 20, 2018, 11:00 a.m.

Education Center

The Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Education and Research Building

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