Ruptures and Continuities: Photography Made after 1960 from the MFAH Collection

Some 200 works from the MFAH's significant international collection have been selected to explore key moments in the dynamic history of post-1960 photography. Ruptures and Continuities: Photography Made after 1960 from the MFAH Collection examines, on a global scope, the course of post-1960 photography. The show explores “ruptures,” or new directions and approaches, in photographic media, created in response to the artistic movements that emerged post-1960, such as Conceptualism and Performance art, as well as the development of new ways of seeing within the photographic community. The exhibition is organized according to the following five thematic sections: self-performance; directorial mode and constructed environments; the transformation of the city; new landscape; and memory and archive. Richard Misrach, William Eggleston and Lewis Baltz will be given a special focus in this exhibition of more than 80 artists. The exhibition will be on view during the Fotofest 2010 Biennial and offers historical perspective on the contemporary works that will be displayed at over 200 participating Fotofest exhibition spaces citywide.  Organized by Yasufumi Nakamori, Assistant Curator of Photography, MFAH.

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