Photography Exhibition: The Art Institute of Chicago - Chicago Cabinet: Views from the Street

The Art Institute of Chicago, regularly has extraordinary photographic exhibitions. This exhibition, Chicago Cabinet: Views from the Street, features seven artists who have taken inspiration from the city's buildings, pedestrians, and vivid street life. Walker Evans, best known for his Depression-era images of the American south is one of the featured photographers.

This exhibition will run through January 17, 2011

Photography Exhibition: The Art Institute of Chicago - Looking after Louis Sullivan

The Art Institute of Chicago, regularly has extraordinary photographic exhibitions. This exhibition, Looking after Louis Sullivan: Photographs, Drawings, and Fragments is a great example of a wonderful study of a great architect by photographers of the mid 20^th century.

This exhibition will run through December 12, 2010

Photography Exhibition: The Art Institute of Chicago - Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century

The Art Institute of Chicago, regularly has extraordinary photographic exhibitions. This exhibition, Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century is a great example of this wonderful photographer of the 20th century.

This exhibition will run through October 10, 2010

Photography Exhibition: Museum of Contemporary Photography - Sarah Pickering: Incident Control

The Museum of Contemporary Photography, in Chicago, IL has some of the most exciting exhibitions of contemporary photography in the US. Sarah Pickering: Incident Control looks like it will be another wonderful exhibition at the Museum. If you’re in the Chicago area, don’t miss this exhibition. I plan to go myself, if at all possible.

The exhibition will run through June 20, 2010.

Photography Exhibition: The Art Institute of Chicago - William Eggleston: Democratic Camera, Photographs and Video, 1961–2008

The Art Institute of Chicago, regularly has extraordinary photographic exhibitions. This exhibition, William Eggleston: Democratic Camera, Photographs and Video, 1961–2008 is a great example of a wonderful photographer of the last half century in the United States.

This exhibition will run through May 23, 2010

Photography Exhibition: The Art Institute of Chicago - Chicago Cabinet: C. D. Arnold Photographs of the World's Columbian Exposition

The Art Institute of Chicago, regularly has extraordinary photographic exhibitions. This exhibition, Chicago Cabinet: C. D. Arnold Photographs of the World's Columbian Exposition is a great example of a wonderful photographer of the late 19^th century and shows an important time in the history of the United States.

This exhibition will run through February 28, 2010

Photography Exhibition: The Art Institute of Chicago - Irving Penn: A Tribute

It seems as though this is the year to recognize the incredible career of Irving Penn. This new exhibition by the Art Institute of Chicago, Irving Penn: A Tribute, seems to be another of their superbly carried out exhibitions.

This exhibition will run through December 13^th

Photography Exhibition: The Art Institute of Chicago - Photography of Judith Turner

The Art Institute of Chicago, regularly has extraordinary photographic exhibitions. I haven’t seen this particular exhibition, however, I am familiar with the work of Judith Turner and can’t imagine this exhibition wouldn’t be absolutely great.

This exhibition will run through January, 2010

Turner is most often described as an “architects’ photographer and a photographer of architecture.” She has been taking pictures since the early seventies, and has photographed iconic, modern buildings by internationally known architects such as Richard Meier, Bernard Tschumi, Peter Eisenman, John Hejduk, Kohn Pedersen Fox, as well as Zaha Hadid, Fumihiko Maki and Shigeru Ban. She has also photographed fragments from architecture and nature, uncovering the essence and structure of columns, glass facades, leaves and trees.

Turner employs a unique approach to photography, capturing her subjects at close proximity and emphasizing their unique design and form. This is especially evident in the artist's series of metallic pictures of leaves and columns. A more recent series of prints featuring billboards and other large-scale advertisements in Times Square, are also photographed within startling proximity to the subjects.

If you’re in the Chicago area before this exhibition leaves, I strongly suggest you take it in. I will definitely be seeing it during my next visit to Chicago.

As I travel, I love seeing the work of other photographers as I hope you do. If you know of a new photographic exhibition which you think the Blog should publicize, please contact me.

Photography Exhibition: At the Art Institute of Chicago - Photography on Display: Modern Treasures

If you're planning an upcoming trip into Chicago, the new exhibit, Photography on Display: Modern Treasures will be coming to the Art Institute of Chicago in just a few weeks. The exhibition appears as though it will be fantastic as it explores the different avenues for presenting photographs in the world.

The exhibition runs from May 9–September 13, 2009

“This exhibition, presented in conjunction with the debut of the new photography galleries of the Modern Wing, explores the different avenues for presenting photographs in the world. Around 130 works by some 70 modernist figures, including classics such as Albert Renger-Patzsch, Walker Evans, and Dorothea Lange, demonstrate the range of photography’s spaces of display: from salon exhibitions to commercial galleries, magazine spreads, or art-school assignments. Each of these spaces helped shape the ideas that continue to make photography a singularly influential field.”

If I’m in Chicago during this exhibition, I’m not going to miss it.

As I travel, I love seeing the work of other photographers as I hope you do. If you know of a new photographic exhibition which you think the Blog should publicize, please contact me.