Hofstra University Museum of Art: Women in Contrast

HOFSTR A UNIVERSIT Y MUSEUM

Mary Ellen Mark (American, 1940-2015), Father and Son, Dallas, Texas, 1987, from the portfolio In America, c. 1992 Gelatin silver print, edition 8/30, 14 x 11 in., Hofstra University Museum Collections, gift of Steven and Susan Ball, HU93.17.2

Women in Contrast March 28-August 18, 2017 | David Filderman Gallery

CUR ATORS’ STATEMENT This original exhibition features iconic imagery captured by a selection of innovative modernist and contemporary female photographers: Berenice Abbott, Diane Arbus, Marilyn Bridges, Nancy Burson, Imogen Cunningham, Donna Ferrato, Toni Frissell, Mary Ellen Mark, and Dorothy Norman. The 33 photographs were selected from the Hofstra University Museum’s collection of more than 900 photographs.

As photography evolved into a viable expressive medium over the course of the 20th century, these American artists seized the opportunity provided by a relatively nascent art form to explore and represent concepts beyond those that had been historically relegated as feminine subjects.

Berenice Abbott’s documentary-style photographs captured the people and architecture of 1930s New York City and illustrated principles of physics for science textbooks. In the 1960s, Diane Arbus created powerful and emotional portraits of people considered to be on the fringes of society. Mary Ellen Mark’s photographs of the 1980s and 1990s reveal her empathy and humanistic point of view. Following the accomplishments of these earlier photographers, Donna Ferrato’s recent project documents the physical changes to her Tribeca, New York, neighborhood. The images produced by these photographers range in subject matter from portraits and landscapes to society’s outcasts and cityscapes. These photographs do not indicate the gender of the artist and do not support societal assumptions about what “feminine” images should look like.

KRISTY L. CARATZOLA Guest Curator KAREN T. ALBERT Deputy Director and Chief Curator, Hofstra University Museum

EXHIBITION CHECKLIST

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Berenice Abbott (American, 1898-1991) American Shops, Lodi, New Jersey, July 30, 1954, from the portfolio Retrospective, 1982 Gelatin silver print, edition 18/40 18 x 22 3/4 in.

Hofstra University Museum Collections Gift of Lazarus Weiner HU83.24 Falling Balls of Unequal Mass, 1958-1961, from the portfolio Retrospective, 1982 Gelatin silver print, edition 18/40 37 x 22 in.

Hofstra University Museum Collections Gift of Lazarus Weiner HU83.28 Magnetic Field, 1958-1961, from the portfolio Retrospective, 1982 Gelatin silver print, edition 18/40 31 1/4 x 37 1/4 in.

Hofstra University Museum Collections Gift of Lazarus Weiner HU83.26 Pendulum (Small Arc), 1958-1961, from the portfolio Retrospective, 1982 Gelatin silver print, edition 18/40 37 x 17 in.

Hofstra University Museum Collections Gift of Lazarus Weiner HU83.27

Hermaphrodite and a Dog in a Carnival Trailer, MD, 1970 Gelatin silver print 20 x 16 in.

Hofstra University Museum Collections Gift of Steven Yager HU89.39 Russian Midget Friends in a Living Room on 100th Street, NYC, 1963 Gelatin silver print 20 x 16 in.

Hofstra University Museum Collections Gift of Steven Yager HU89.40

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New York, 1937, from the portfolio Retrospective, 1982 Gelatin silver print, edition 18/40 38 1/4 x 32 in.

Hofstra University Museum Collections Gift of Lazarus Weiner HU84.25

Diane Arbus (American, 1923-1971) 2 A Young Brooklyn Family Going

for a Sunday Outing, NYC, 1966 Gelatin silver print 20 x 16 in.

Hofstra University Museum Collections Gift of Steven Yager HU89.37 3 A Young Man in Curlers at Home

on West 20th Street, NYC, 1966 Gelatin silver print 20 x 16 in.

Hofstra University Museum Collections Gift of Steven Yager HU89.38

Marilyn Bridges (American, b. 1948) 4 Geometrics, Lone Wolf, Oklahoma, 1987,

from the portfolio Heightened Perspectives, 1990 Gelatin silver print 16 x 20 in.

Hofstra University Museum Collections Gift of Steven and Susan Ball HU95.14.11

Ioulis, Kea, Greece, 1984, from the portfolio Heightened Perspectives, 1990 Gelatin silver print 16 x 20 in.

Hofstra University Museum Collections Gift of Steven and Susan Ball HU95.14.6 Journey, Monument Valley, Arizona/Utah, 1983, from the portfolio Heightened Perspectives, 1990 Gelatin silver print 16 x 20 in.

Hofstra University Museum Collections Gift of Steven and Susan Ball HU95.14.13

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9 7 Tow Away Zone, Leonard St., from

the portfolio Tribeca 10013, 2006 Pigment print on fiber paper 17 1/2 x 26 in.

Hofstra University Museum Collections Gift of Steven and Susan Ball HU2014.20.1 8 6 5 Kahiltna Glacier, Denali, Alaska, 1990,

from the portfolio Heightened Perspectives, 1990 Gelatin silver print 16 x 20 in.

Hofstra University Museum Collections Gift of Steven and Susan Ball HU95.14.9

Nancy Burson (American, b. 1948) 6 Androgyny (6 Men + 6 Women), 1982

Composite gelatin silver print, edition 9/15 9 3/4 x 9 1/2 in.

Hofstra University Museum Collections Gift of the artist HU82.25.a

Imogen Cunningham (American, 1883-1976) Unmade Bed, 1957 Gelatin silver print 10 3/8 x 13 3/8 in.

Hofstra University Museum Collections Gift of Long Beach Friends of Hofstra HU76.05

Donna Ferrato (American, b. 1949) Billion Dollar View, Church and 56 Leonard St., from the portfolio Tribeca 10013, 2008 Pigment print on fiber paper 26 x 17 1/2 in.

Hofstra University Museum Collections Gift of Steven and Susan Ball HU2014.20.3 Pretty Woman, Odeon, from the portfolio Tribeca 10013, 2008 Pigment print on fiber paper 21 x 26 in.

Hofstra University Museum Collections Gift of Steven and Susan Ball HU2014.20.2 Steam on Church Street, from the portfolio Tribeca 10013, 2008 Pigment print on fiber paper 30 x 20 in.

Hofstra University Museum Collections Gift of Steven and Susan Ball HU2009.3.3

Toni Frissell (American, 1907-1988) 8 Colorado, Woman Entering Mission,

1942/1975 10 x 10 1/4 in.

Gelatin silver print Hofstra University Museum Collections Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Toni Frissell Collection HU75.40 9 Montego Bay, 1948/1975

Gelatin silver print 10 x 10 1/4 in.

Hofstra University Museum Collections Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Toni Frissell Collection HU75.39

Mary Ellen Mark (American, 1940-2015) Brothers Going to Church, Tunica, Mississippi, 1990, from the portfolio In America, c. 1992 Gelatin silver print, edition 8/30 14 x 11 in.

Hofstra University Museum Collections Gift of Steven and Susan Ball HU93.17.3

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Dorothy Norman (American, 1905-1997)

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Father and Son, Christian Bikers, Arizona, 1988, from the portfolio In America, c. 1992 Gelatin silver print, edition 8/30 14 x 11 in.

Hofstra University Museum Collections Gift of Steven and Susan Ball HU93.17.5 10 Father and Son, Dallas, Texas, 1987,

from the portfolio In America, c. 1992 Gelatin silver print, edition 8/30 14 x 11 in.

Hofstra University Museum Collections Gift of Steven and Susan Ball HU93.17.2 Sisters, Christian Bikers, Arizona, 1988, from the portfolio In America, c. 1992 Gelatin silver print, edition 8/30 14 x 11 in.

Hofstra University Museum Collections Gift of Steven and Susan Ball HU93.17.9

Luise Rainer, Woods Hole, 1945, from the portfolio Dorothy Norman: Selected Photographs Gelatin silver print 10 x 8 in.

Hofstra University Museum Collections Gift of Steven and Susan Ball HU96.64.10

Alfred Stieglitz, New York, 1933, from the portfolio Dorothy Norman: Selected Photographs Gelatin silver print 10 x 8 in.

Hofstra University Museum Collections Gift of Steven and Susan Ball HU96.64.12

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Alfred Stieglitz, New York, 1935, from the portfolio Dorothy Norman: Selected Photographs Gelatin silver print 10 x 8 in.

Hofstra University Museum Collections Gift of Steven and Susan Ball HU96.64.5

13 New York Skyline, 1942, from

Georgia O’Keeffe Painting with Light Bulb, 1936, from the portfolio Dorothy Norman: Selected Photographs Gelatin silver print 10 x 8 in.

Hofstra University Museum Collections Gift of Steven and Susan Ball HU96.64.14

Woods Hole, 1937, from the portfolio Dorothy Norman: Selected Photographs Gelatin silver print 10 x 8 in.

Hofstra University Museum Collections Gift of Steven and Susan Ball HU96.64.9

11 Hand, Chatham, 1937, from the

portfolio Dorothy Norman: Selected Photographs Gelatin silver print 10 x 8 in.

Hofstra University Museum Collections Gift of Steven and Susan Ball HU96.64.3

from the portfolio Dorothy Norman: Selected Photographs Gelatin silver print 10 x 8 in.

Hofstra University Museum Collections Gift of Steven and Susan Ball HU96.64.2 the portfolio Dorothy Norman: Selected Photographs Gelatin silver print 10 x 8 in.

Hofstra University Museum Collections Gift of Steven and Susan Ball HU96.64.1

This exhibition is offered in association with the 17th Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Genders, and Sexualities to be held at Hofstra University June 1-4, 2017.

Funding support has been provided by Astoria Bank, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and Barbara Roux.