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Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Mexico, 1902-2002

Paisaje Chamula [Chamula Landscape], ca. 1979

gelatin silver print
8 x 10"

Gift of Michael J. Charles, 81.0448.13

Alvarez Bravo’s grandfather, Manuel Alvarez Rivas, was a painter and photographer; his father, Manuel Alvarez Garcia, was a writer and painter. Alvarez Bravo studied painting and music in school, and began photographing one year after meeting the German photographer Hugo Brehme in 1923. For many years Alvarez Bravo was director and chief photographer of the Fondo Editorial de la Plasticas Mexicana.

Sandra Louise Skoglund, United States, b. 1946

Fox Games, 1989

cibachrome photograph
46 x 62"

Gift of The Francien and Lee Ruwitch Charitable Foundation, Inc., 91.0477

Educated at Smith College and the University of Iowa, where she earned an MFA, Sandy Skoglund's work combines the creation of large-scale environments with large-format photography. The art historian, Betsy Rosasco, a classmate of Skoglund's at Smith, writes that the artist's considerable popular appeal lies in part on her ability to infuse the ordinary with sly humor, mystery, and the surreal. Thus, we see in her work a "conventional situation, that we all immediately recognize, and then there is that oddity..." consisting, in this case, of a flurry of red foxes.

Stéphane Couturier, France, b. 1957

Rue de Chateaudun - Rue de la Victoire - Paris from Urban Archaeology Series, 1997

cibachrome photograph
49 1/8 x 62 1/2"

Museum purchase through the 1999 Director's Circle, 99.0005

Stéphane Couturier has been photographing European cities for more than twenty years. His ongoing project photographing construction sites, Urban Archaeology, explores cities in the midst of change and builds upon photography’s historical fascination with urban architecture.

Andres Serrano, United States, b. 1953

Piss Discus from The Fluids Series, 1988

cibachrome and silicone print
39 5/8 x 27"

Museum purchase through the 1999 Director's Circle, 99.0006

Born in New York City and educated at the Brooklyn Museum Art School, Serrano had his first one-person exhibition at the Leonard Perison Gallery in New York in 1985. His image from this series, Piss Christ, caused a furor when it was included in an exhibition at the Cincinnati Museum of Art in 1990, which was partially funded by the National Endowment for the Arts . Since then the conceptual artist and photographer has continued to exhibit widely.