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In Appreciation: Gifts in Honor of Anne Wilkes Tucker
Collectors, artists, and gallerists from around the country are donating more than 150 works to the Museum in honor of Anne Wilkes Tucker鈥檚 39-year tenure as curator of photography.
In Appreciation: Gifts in Honor of Anne Wilkes Tucker features a selection of these photographs. Among the highlights are Richard Avedon鈥檚 1955 Dovima with Elephants; Nan Goldin鈥檚 multimedia Ballad of Sexual Dependency from the 1980s; a unique Man Ray photomontage from about 1926; a photograph by the medium鈥檚 inventor, William Henry Fox Talbot, from 1840鈥攏ow the earliest firmly dated photograph in the MFAH collection; and a luminous 1949 nighttime view of the Pont Neuf, the oldest bridge in Paris, by 叠谤补蝉蝉补茂.
Other notable images include Gilbert and George's 45-panel Base from 2005; Harlem street scenes and portraits by Dawoud Bey from the 1980s; and photographs by Diane Arbus, Lee Friedlander, Josef Koudelka, Robert Mapplethorpe, Ray Metzker, and Irving Penn.
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Collectors, artists, and gallerists from around the country are donating more than 150 works to the Museum in honor of Anne Wilkes Tucker鈥檚 39-year tenure as curator of photography.
In Appreciation: Gifts in Honor of Anne Wilkes Tucker features a selection of these photographs. Among the highlights are Richard Avedon鈥檚 1955 Dovima with Elephants; Nan Goldin鈥檚 multimedia Ballad of Sexual Dependency from the 1980s; a unique Man Ray photomontage from about 1926; a photograph by the medium鈥檚 inventor, William Henry Fox Talbot, from 1840鈥攏ow the earliest firmly dated photograph in the MFAH collection; and a luminous 1949 nighttime view of the Pont Neuf, the oldest bridge in Paris, by 叠谤补蝉蝉补茂.
Other notable images include Gilbert and George's 45-panel Base from 2005; Harlem street scenes and portraits by Dawoud Bey from the 1980s; and photographs by Diane Arbus, Lee Friedlander, Josef Koudelka, Robert Mapplethorpe, Ray Metzker, and Irving Penn.
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