Museum of Contemporary Photography
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| place | Chicago, Illinois, 600 South Michigan Avenue 
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Contemporary Photography Museum
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| opening | 1976 |
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Natasha Egan
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The Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP) is a museum for contemporary photography and was founded in 1976 by Columbia College in Chicago . It pursues a varied exhibition policy and strives to discover outstanding and emerging talents. In addition to its permanent collection, the museum is home to the so-called MPP project , which contains images and works of art by photographers based in the American Midwest .
collection
The museum's permanent collection focuses on significant American and international photography from the 20th century to the present day. It includes works by Ansel Adams , Tina Barney , Harry Callahan , Henri Cartier-Bresson , Julia Margaret Cameron , Louise Dahl-Wolfe , Walker Evans , Dorothea Lange , Marc Lüders , Richard Mosse , Pieter Ombregt , Irving Penn , Sandy Skoglund , Aaron Siskind and Victor Skrebneski. There are over 10,000 exhibits, from daguerreotypes to color compositions, photograms , photo reports and installations to current digital experiments.
Exhibitions (selection)
Museum exhibitions since 2001:
- Paul Shambroom: Evidence of Democracy , October 3 - December 5, 2003
- Michael Wolf: The Transparent City and Work / Place , November 14, 2008 - January 31, 2009
- Guy Tillim : Avenue Patrice Lumumba , January 10, 2010 to March 6, 2011
- planned: North Korean Perspectives from July 23 to October 4, 2015. The exhibition is divided into two areas: on the one hand in official views of the North Korean government, which only allows a politically restricted view of the largely isolated country and on the other in largely uncensored images especially from foreign photo journalists.
Web links
- Official website (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.mocp.org/about/history-and-mission.php
- ^ Museum of Contemporary Photography: Past Exhibitions.
- ^ Marianne Combs: Evidence of democracy. Minnesota Public Radio, November 7, 2003. Retrieved August 19, 2011.
- ↑ Alan G. Artner: Shambroom's bleak view of US Chicago Tribune , November 6th of 2003.
- ^ Alan G. Artner: Photos offer voyeurism along with abstraction. Chicago Tribune , November 21, 2008. Retrieved August 19, 2011.
- ↑ Lauren Weinberg: Michael Wolf & "Work / Place." Time Out Chicago, December 10, 2008. Retrieved August 19, 2011.
- ↑ Lori Waxman : African avenues of broken dreams. Chicago Tribune, February 18, 2011. Retrieved August 19, 2011.
- ^ Lauren Weinberg: "Guy Tillim: Avenue Patrice Lumumba" at the Museum of Contemporary Photography. Time Out Chicago, February 2, 2011. Retrieved August 19, 2011.