Body Work: Photographs of Nudes

Saturday, August 26, 2000—Sunday, January 7, 2001
Harrison Photography Gallery
Free Exhibition

This exhibition, drawn primarily from the Institute’s permanent collection, features the work of twelve well-known known American and European photographers. Their pictures span more than one hundred years and represent most major movements in the history of photography. Eadweard Muybridge, working in the late 19th century, included nude men and women in an extensive analysis of human motion. Turn-of-the-century pictorialists Anne W. Brigman and Edward Steichen, idealized the nude, making evocative, soft-focus images. The other 20th century photographers in the exhibition are E.J. Bellocq, Edward Weston, Max Thorek, Wellington Lee, Bill Brandt, Roger Mertin, Thomas Weir, Judy Coleman, and John Bernhard. They engage the human figure in a wide range of imagery, reinforcing it as one of photography's most enduring subjects.