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Cindy Sherman: Centerfold (Untitled #96) - MoMA One on One Series by Cindy Sherman + Gwen Allen
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In 1981 Cindy Sherman was commissioned to contribute a special project to Artforum magazine. Given two facing pages, she chose to explore the pornographic centerfold, creating 12 largescale horizontal images of herself appearing as various young women, often reclining, in private, melancholic moments of ...Show more
Helen Levitt: New York - MoMA One on One Series by Helen Levitt +Shamoon Zamir
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Helen Levitt's photographs from the 1930s and 1940s of the communities of New York City's Harlem are startling achievements of street photography. They catch the evanescent configurations of gesture, movement, pose and expression that make visible the street as surreal theatre, and everyday life as art ...Show more
Kahlo: Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair by Jodi Roberts, Frida Kahlo
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An accessible and in-depth study of Frida Kahlo, one of the most beloved artists in MoMA's collection. Though the Surrealists adopted Frida Kahlo as one of their own, the painter maintained that she did 'not know if my paintings are Surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the most frank expressio ...Show more
Lange - Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California by Dorothea Lange (By (photographer)); Sarah Hermanson Meister (Text by)
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The United States was in the midst of the Depression when photographer Dorothea Lange, a portrait-studio owner, began documenting the country_s rampant poverty. Her depictions of unemployed men wandering the streets of San Francisco gained the attention of one of President Franklin D. Roosevelt_s New De ...Show more
Saar: Black Girl’s Window by Christophe Cherix (Editor); Esther Adler (Text by); Betye Saar (Artist)
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New in MoMA's 'One on One' series, this book focuses on Betye Saar's Black Girl's Window (1969) and a selection of the artist's prints from the 1960s and early 1970s. Betye Saar made Black Girl's Window in 1969. It is a deeply autobiographical picture that alluded to her African-American heritage along ...Show more
Self-Portrait with Two Flowers by Paula Modersohn-Becker (Artist); Diane Radycki
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Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876-1907) painted her last self-portrait in 1907, while she was in her third trimester. In the painting she gazes straight at the viewer, holding up two flowers--symbols representing the creativity and procreativity of women artists--and resting a protective hand atop her swelli ...Show more
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