Exposition. Photographic Narratives of the Desert West 27 juin 1996 - 22 septembre 1996 USA, New York, Whitney Museum of American Art http://www.echonyc.com/~whitney/WMAA/perpetual/mainperp.html

Notes : "From the ancient archeological ruins of the Mesa Verde to the modern oasis cities of Palm Springs and Las Vegas, the exhibition presents an arid American West marked by its successive pasts. Beginning in the 1860s, former Civil War photographers charted the first Western railroad routes. Later in the 19th century, photographers surveyed the land for natural resources, and still later, ethnographic recorders sought to depict vanishing peoples. As tourism and photography publishing expanded, the arid West became the site of relentless promotions, with railroads and other commercial interests urging alluring depictions of the scenic West. With the Great Depression of the 1930s, Dorothea Lange and others documented the tragic mismanagement of arid lands, while Ansel Adams and Edward Weston found a new Modernist aesthetic in the eroded hills and yucca plants of the California deserts. Later, these same photographers, along with Eliot Porter, produced environmental "battle books" for the Sierra Club, to broaden awareness of pressing environmental and social issues in the West. With the '60s and '70s, photographers such as Lewis Baltz and Robert Adams proposed a counter-aesthetic, finding beauty in scarred and inhabited lands. And a growing genre of books, including the landmark Learning from Las Vegas by Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour, immortalized the roadside attractions of America's leading tourist destination. In presenting not only the individual images but the actual volumes in which these photographs first appeared, the exhibition documents the evolution of both the desert West and the photographic book. The following quotations and excerpts are taken from the catalogue accompanying the exhibition."

Noms cités:

ADAMS Ansel 1998, Exposition. The Photographic Era: Highlights from the Permanent Collection USA, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

 

ADAMS Robert Orange, New Jersey, Etats-Unis, 1937- Vit à Longmont (Colorado) [ Liens sur le web ] 1964, Documenta III Allemagne, Cassel   1996, Exposition. Une Aventure Contemporaine, la photographie 1955-1995 France, Paris, Maison Européenne de la Photographie   1997, Documenta X Allemagne, Cassel   1997, Exposition American Photography: Recent Acquisitions USA, New York, Museum of Modern Art   1997, Exposition The View from Denver: Contemporary American Artfrom the Denver Art Museum Autriche, Vienne, Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation

 

BALTZ Lewis Newport Beach, Californie, Etats-Unis, 1945- 1996, Exposition. Une Aventure Contemporaine, la photographie 1955-1995 France, Paris, Maison Européenne de la Photographie

 

IZENOUR Steven

 

LANGE Dorothea 1977, Documenta VI Allemagne, Cassel   1997, Exposition American Photography 1890-1965 from the Collection USA, New York, Museum of Modern Art   1998, Exposition. The Photographic Era: Highlights from the Permanent Collection USA, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

 

SCOTT BROWN Denise

 

VENTURI Robert

 

WESTON Edward 1997, Exposition American Photography 1890-1965 from the Collection USA, New York, Museum of Modern Art   1998, Exposition. The Photographic Era: Highlights from the Permanent Collection USA, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art