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Once
seen as straightforward documentation of the visual world,
photographs came to also communicate symbolic content and
a wide range of political issues. The exhibition, The Body
and the Lens: Photography 1839 to the Present, investigates
how photographic representations of the body determine how
we think about others and ourselves. In responding to contemporary
theories of personal identity, gender, sexual orientation
and political power, The Body and the Lens examines these societal constructions by analyzing likenesses
of the body to invoke historically and culturally specific
images.
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Bill Brandt
Nude, East Sussex Coast, 1953
gelatin-silver print
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Hans Bellmer
La poupee, c. 1935
gelatin-silver print |
