Robert Koch Gallery is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of photographs by Kenneth Josephson. Josephson has long been recognized as an early and influential American practitioner of Conceptual photography. The exhibition showcases his highly experimental black and white photographs from the 1960s and 1970s and chronicles his exploration of abstraction with light and man’s dialogue with nature.
Kenneth Josephson is known for his conceptual photographs that famously layered pictures within pictures, focusing on the act of picture making and offering playful commentary on photographic truth and illusion. His experiments require the viewer to consider the act of photography and convey the artist’s desire to question the medium and reject the illusion of realism. Josephson also used hand-held measuring ...
Curator: Anna Tellgren
The exhibition Reality Revisited includes more than 300 photographs from the 1970s, all in the Moderna Museet Collection of photography. It gives us a look into several realities, the lives of famous photographers and their views on life and art. The featured photographers represent classic black-and-white photography. They have used the medium in various ways to develop their own expressive style through the photographic image. Postwar street photography and subjective photography were seminal to the photographers whose careers began in the 1960s and peaked in the 1970s before the breakthrough of postmodern photo-based art in the early 1980s. The title, Reality Revisited, refers to the way these photographers frequently used, or returned to, their own reality as a starting point. Many of them s...