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COPYRIGHT 2006 Visual Studies Workshop
MP3: MIDWEST PHOTOGRAPHERS PUBLICATION PROJECT
INDIVIDUAL TITLES BY KELLI CONNELL, JUSTIN NEWHALL, AND BRIAN ULRICH
NEW YORK: APERTURE/MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY, 2006
56 PP./$30.00 (HB WITH SLIPCASE)
The Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP), originally known as the Chicago Center for Contemporary Photography, was founded in the late seventies at Chicago's Columbia College as a student gallery that with time has become a vital venue for photography. The Midwest Photographers Project (MPP), founded at the museum in 1982, was then, and remains today, one of the most innovative programs at the museum, according to Curator Karen Irvine. (1) Covering nine Midwestern states, (2) the MPP is a collection of portfolios loaned by regional photographers for a two-year period. While a good deal of the collection emphasizes emerging artists, the mission is directed at new work, not necessarily new artists. In other words, the collection not only houses a wide array of emerging artists but new bodies of work by established artists, the likes of Barbara Crane, David Goldes, and Alec Soth. Located in the James J. Brennan Print Study Room, this collection is likely one of the most widely viewed in the...
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