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Vassar College
Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center

Facebook: Images of People in Photographs from the Collection

June 27 – August 10, 2008

"This exhibition examines the development of the photographic portrait over a period of eight decades, presenting a selection from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center collection of close to 3,000 photographs. From August Sander’s iconic portraits of the 1920s to the unique personalities captured by visionary artist Diane Arbus in the 1960s and from the theatrical fictions created by Cindy Sherman in the 1970s to the deadpan views of ordinary New Yorkers by Rineke Dijkstra in the 1990s, this exhibition offers a rare view of the history of faces in photography."

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[photo from ArtDaily.org. Caption: Garry Winogrand, World’s Fair, New York City, NY, 1964. Gelatin silver print © Estate of Garry Winogrand.]

Utopian Mirage

Vassar College
Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center

Utopian Mirage: Social Metaphors in Contemporary Photography and Film

May 25 - July 29, 2007


[image from exhibition: Ruins of Drop City Commune,Trinidad, Colorado, August 1995. Joel Sternfeld, 2005]

"Utopia, the notion of an ideal society, imagines a place or a community where social contradictions are annulled in a collective dream in which peace and harmony are perfected. ... But what has come of these utopias in the 21st century? The artists whose work is included in Utopian Mirage, revisit these dreams today to discover that they have often been overtaken by the dystopian realities of urban decay, corruption, loss of innocence, and nature's entropic cycles."

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