not all realisms @ Smart Museum of Art

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not all realisms @ Smart Museum of Art

February 9th, 2023 by fstop

not all realisms Group Exhibition
February 23rd – June 4th

Opening Reception: February 23rd | 5 – 7 PM

“The Smart Museum of Art is pleased to present not all realisms. This group exhibition addresses photography in the context of Africa’s long 1960s—amid resistance, revolution, new nationalist and transnational movements, and the stuff of daily life therein. Focusing on Ghana, Mali, and South Africa, this exhibition features photographic prints, reprints, books, magazines, posters, and other material means through which photography’s relationships to real people and events were articulated, produced, and circulated. And it looks to contemporary works that engage and reflect on those material histories and might prompt us to ask: did the sixties ever end?

Bridging the division often made between studio photography and reportage—even as many photographers worked across such categories in their practices—not all realisms brings studio and street together. This project explores documentary visions cultivated through international circulation of print media and transnational dialogues, and examines the multiple lives of single images made by photographers including Ernest Cole, Malick Sidibé, James Barnor, Peter Magubane, Paul Strand, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and more.”

Smart Museum of Art
The University of Chicago
5550 S Greenwood Ave
Chicago, IL

Location: Chicago, Illinois Type: Exhibition

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