If photography is to retain the high cultural standing it won for itself in the 20th century, we probably want less of it, not more.
There's no chance of that happening, of course.
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MoMA announces transformative gift of photographs by women artists from the Helen Kornblum Collection
Frances Benjamin Johnston. Penmanship Class. 1899. Platinum print, 7 3/8 × 9 3/8″ (18.7 × 23.8 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Helen Kornblum in honor of Roxana Marcoci.
NEW YORK, NY
.-The Museum of Modern Art has received a major gift of 100 photographs from the Helen Kornblum Collection, adding significant examples of women artists pioneering achievements across the field. The collectionincluding avantgarde experimentation, photojournalism, social documentary, commercial studio photography, and advertising, among other practicesis filled with both rare and important works and lesser-known or under-represented examples spanning the history of the medium. The gift features iconic images from the early modernist period to today by such luminaries as Gertrud Arndt, Lola Alvarez Bravo, Claude Cahun, Laura Gilpin, Kati Horna, Germaine Krull, Dora Maar, and
More than 60 years after her death, Frida Kahlo is a rock star.
“Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Mexican Modernism” opens at the Albuquerque Museum, 2000 Mountain Road NW, on Saturday, Feb. 6.
Despite the inclusion of famed muralists Diego Rivera (Kahlo’s husband/lover/nemesis) and David Alfaro Siqueiros; and the painters María Izquierdo and Rufino Tamayo; Kahlo is the draw, the star of the show, the global icon who sold out the exhibition’s last stop in Denver.
Of about 200 works, 20 of the paintings are Kahlo’s. Her work and the bohemian image she conjured throughout her career dominate the exhibition. Visitors also can view some of her Indigenous clothing.