Photography Against Itself Exhibition on Display at the Bayly Art Museum

June 28, 2000 --The exhibition "Photography Against Itself: Contemporary Photographs from the Museum Collection" opened to the public on Saturday, June 17. The exhibition features 24 contemporary photographs from the collection of the Bayly Art Museum of the University of Virginia. The works in the exhibition question the contemporary authenticity of photography since the advent of computer-generated imagery. They also blur distinctions between photography, printmaking and painting, and manipulate or expose their own manipulations.

The exhibition which runs through August 20 in the Graphics Gallery, includes work by Tina Barney, David Levinthal, Joan Fontcuberta, Nancy, Burson, McDermont and McGough, Ken Matsubara, James Welling, Duane Michals, John Pfahl, Peter Feldstein, John Blakemore, William Klein, and Abelardo Morell.

Most of the works in the exhibition are part of the collection of the Bayly Art Museum and were acquired in the 1990's with Curriculum Support Funds. Many of the works were selected by Holly Wright, a photographer and recently retired professor in the McIntire Department of Art at the University of Virginia.

"The urge of photography to expose its own limits is not so far from the urge to transcend those limits," says Stephen Margulies, curator of the exhibition. He asks: "Is photography suicidally turning against its traditional role as the most dependable Œmirror of the soul' or is it creating newer, flashier, more anguished but also more ecstatic higher realities --soulspace even more than cyberspace? Never have we had such a rich chaos of imagery from which the artist can extract value."

The Bayly Art Museum is open to the public Tuesday through Sunday 1 to 5 p.m. without charge. The Museum is located on Rugby Road, a short distance from the Rotunda. For more information please call (804) 924-3592. Photographs are available.

CONTACT: Jill Hartz, Director 804/243-8854 Stephen Marguiles, Curator 804/924-3424

FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: please contact the Office of University Relations at (804) 924-7116. Television reporters should contact the TV News Office at (804) 924-7550.
SOURCE: U.Va. News Services

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