MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY

The 'Museum of Contemporary Photography' ('MoCP') was founded in 1984 by Columbia College in Chicago, USA. It is well known for an active program and curating which discovers many emerging and mid-career artists. The museum houses the Midwest Photographers Project (MPP), which contains portfolios of photographers and artists' work who reside in the midwestern United States.

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Permanent Collection

Selected Exhibitions

External links

Permanent Collection

The MoCP’s permanent collection focuses on American and U.S. resident photography of the 20th century and today. The collection features work by Ansel Adams, Harry Callahan, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Julia Margaret Cameron, Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Irving Penn, Aaron Siskind, and Victor Skrebneski among the 7,000-plus photographs and photographically related objects, including gelatin-silver prints, color work, digital pieces, photograms, and various alternative processes.

Selected Exhibitions

★ Tim Roda: Family Album, 2007

★ Monika Brandmeier: Bilder und Blicke/Pictures and Views, 2007

★ Barbara Probst: Exposures, 2007

★ Misty Keasler: Love Hotels, 2007

★ Larry Sultan: The Valley, 2007

★ Robert Heinecken: Sex and Food, a Memorial Exhibition, 2007

★ An-My Lê: Small Wars, 2006

★ MP3: Kelli Connell, Justin Newhall, Brian Ulrich 2006

★ Tim Davis: My Life in Politics 2006

★ Eirik Johnson: Borderlands 2005

★ Taryn Simon: The Innocents 2005

★ Lee Friedlander: Sticks and Stones and At Work 2005

★ Shimon Attie — The History of Another: Projections in Rome 2004

★ Midwest Photographers Project: Alec Soth 2003

★ Paul Shambroom: Evidence of Democracy 2003

★ Garry Winogrand: 1964 2003

★ Shirana Shahbazi: Goftare Nik / Good Words 2003

★ The Transportation of Place: Andrea Robbins & Max Becher 2003

★ Adi Nes: Photographs 2002

★ Tracey Baran 2002

★ Anthony Goicolea 2002

★ Hellen van Meene 2002

★ Justine Kurland 2002

★ Barbara Crane: Chicago Loop, 1976–78 & Urban Anomalies, 2000–01

External links

★ Museum of Contemporary Photography website