Sharon Lockhart.MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART What photographer wants to hear her work looks just like Robert Frank, Diane Arbus Diane Arbus (March 14, 1923 – July 26, 1971) was an American photographer, noted for her portraits of people on the fringes of society. Early life Diane Nemerov , or Cindy Sherman? That's not Sharon Lockhart's problem: Her photos and films garner comparisons to seventeenthcentury Dutch painting instead. Like those still-lifes with twelve kinds of meat, her work privileges surface detail over narrative, studium over punctum punctum /punc·tum/ (pungk´tum) pl. punc´ta [L.] a point or small spot. punctum cae´cum blind spot. punctum lacrima´le lacrimal point. . But the hangover notion of photography as a purely documentary medium haunts her work as well. As seen in this survey, her largest solo presentation to date, Lockhart has zoomed in on the role of the photographer in all its guises-- as creator, choreographer, and subjective documentarian doc·u·men·tar·i·an also doc·u·men·ta·rist n. One that makes documentaries or a documentary. . Feb. 24-May 20; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. , June 10-Sept. 3. |
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