 Biographical Landscape offers an opportunity to revisit the works of Stephen Shore, one of the most prominent and influential American photographers to emerge in the last half-century. Focusing on Uncommon Places—Shore’s essential series on the American vernacular landscape produced between 1973 and 1982, Biographical Landscape provides an opportunity to reexamine this work in the context of his broader oeuvre, unearthing the conceptual underpinnings that inform his work throughout. What makes this work transcend the ordinariness of the subject matter is Shore’s unsurpassed artistry and technical skill as a photographer, coupled with his unique vision of each location that he documents. Quintessentially American scenes are transformed into uncommon places that seem frozen in space and time. The viewer of a Shore photograph is seduced by the colors, the density of information, and the everyday familiarity of the locations. Aperture, a not-for-profit organization devoted to photography and the visual arts, has organized this traveling exhibition and produced the accompanying publications. View additional images from the exhibition
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Parking
Parking is available in the Marquette Wells Street Parking Structure, entered on 13th street between Wells Street and Kilbourn Avenue. Additional parking is available in the Parking Structure, entered from 16th street between Wisconsin Avenue and Wells Street. Metered street parking is available on Clybourn Avenue between 13th and 16th Streets and on 14th Street between Wisconsin and Kilbourn Avenues. The Haggerty lot adjacent to the museum is no longer available for parking due to campus construction. For more information please call 414-288-7290.
Programs in conjunction with Biographical Landscape:
The Photography of Stephen Shore, 1969-1979
Thursday, August 7, 2008
Lunchtime Learning - A series of gallery talks in conjunction with the Stephen Shore exhibition
Dan Johnson, Chief Photographer, Marquette University
How To Make Pictures, Not Take Them
Noon-1 p.m.
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Lunchtime Learning
James Brozek, Photographer, School of Dentistry, Marquette University
Photography and the Work Environment
Noon-1 p.m.
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Wally Mason, Director of the Haggerty Museum of Art
Gallery talk/walk-through of Biographical Landscape
Noon-1 p.m.
Panel Discussion – The Color Photograph
Thursday, September 18, 2008, 7 p.m.
Free and open to the public
Moderator-Wally Mason, Director of the Haggerty Museum of Art
Lisa Hostetler, Associate Curator of Photographs-Milwaukee Art Museum
Brian Ulrich, Photographer
Karen Irvine, Curator, Museum of Contemporary Photography,
Columbia College, Chicago
Tom Bamberger, Photographer
All programs take place at the Haggerty Museum of Art, 530 N. 13th St.
For information, call 414-288-5915 or e-mail lynne.shumow@mu.edu