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Bill Brandt
Untitled
1958
gelatin silver print
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Body Work: Photographs of Nudes
August 26, 2000–January 7, 2001
Harrison Photography Gallery
This exhibition, drawn primarily from the Institute’s permanent
collection, features the work of twelve well-known known American and European photographers.
Their pictures span more than one hundred years and represent most major
movements in the history of photography. Eadweard Muybridge, working in the late 19th
century, included nude men and women in an extensive analysis of human
motion. Turn-of-the-century pictorialists Anne W. Brigman and Edward Steichen, idealized
the nude, making evocative, soft-focus images. The other 20th century photographers
in the exhibition are E.J. Bellocq, Edward Weston, Max Thorek, Wellington Lee, Bill
Brandt, Roger Mertin, Thomas Weir, Judy Coleman, and John Bernhard. They engage the
human figure in a wide range of imagery, reinforcing it as one of photography's most
enduring subjects.
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