"Staging Action: Performance in Photography since 1960" Exhibition
The Museum of Modern Art
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Performance art is generally experienced live, but what documents it and ensures its enduring life is, above all, photography. Yet photography plays a constitutive role, not merely a documentary one, when performance is staged expressly for the camera (often in the absence of an audience), and the images that result are recordings of an event but also autonomous works of art. The pictures in this exhibition, selected from the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, exemplify the complex and varied uses artists have devised for photography in the field of performance since the 1960s.
[Image: Rong Rong. "East Village, Beijing, No. 81." 1994. Gelatin silver print. 21 3/16 x 13 1/8" (53.8 x 33.3 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Acquired through the generosity of Peter and Susan MacGill. © 2010 Rong Rong]
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from January 28, 2011 to May 09, 2011