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American Beauty - Photographs of the American Social Landscape 1930s–1970s
13 May - 22 October 2006
National Gallery of Victoria
This exhibition features the work of a group of documentary photographers who explored the significance of the American vernacular from the 1930s to the 1970s. Robert Frank, André Kertész, José López and Luis Medina did so, essentially, from a position of ‘outsiders’ coming to America from other cultures, while locally-born Walker Evans and Lee Friedlander adopted a position of subjective detachment when viewing their own society. Ranging in tone from the critical or spiky to the playful or ironic, the photographers’ works are united by their passionate regard for how the American people express themselves in their physical universe. This is no ‘Family of Man’ humanistic view of society but, rather, an articulate and unsentimental consideration of the complex nature of American beauty that can be found in its urban landscapes.
National Gallery of Victoria
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