Casey Kaplan
Camera of Wonders
27 OCT 2015–03 JUL 2016
In a time of near endless image production and exchange Camera of Wonders presents an associative display of more than one hundred photographic works spanning the history of photography. The exhibition brings together some of the most significant photographic artists of the last century as well as many of the most innovative contemporary photographers. The works are assembled from Colección Isabel y Agustín Coppel (CIAC A.C.) and the collection of KADIST.
Using the wunderkammer and the iconic exhibition The Family of Man (1955) as points of departure, Camera of Wonders features an installation armature that places work according to their formal relationships, creating a transhistorical display that investigates the interchange between representation, narrative and abstraction. The exhibition offers an imaginative way of viewing, inviting visitors to observe their own methods of encoding what they see, and rediscovering their capacity to look at photography. The Mexico City-based architecture office Productora has designed the exhibition architecture, which transports the historical cabinet of curiosities into our present time.
Accompanying Camera of Wonders is the exhibition catalogue, designed by Jon Sueda of Stripe San Francisco, and co-published by CIAC A.C., KADIST, and Mousse Publishing. It includes essays by curator and scholar Julieta González, artist Walead Beshty, and Jens Hoffmann, as well as artist texts, images of the exhibition artworks, and a timeline bisecting the history of photography and the artworks from both collections.
Participating artists: Berenice Abbott, Doug Aitken, Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Diane Arbus, Associated Press / US Air Force, Roger Ballen, Tom Baril, Lothar Baumgarten, Wimo Ambala Bayang, Peter Beard, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Julie Béna, Lucas Blalock, Karl Blossfeldt, Erwin Blumenfeld, Bill Brandt, Brassaï, Elina Brotherus, Jeff Burton, Arabella Campbell, Sarah Conaway, Nicolás Consuegra, Mario Cravo Neto, Alexandre da Cunha, William Eggleston, Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Lee Friedlander, Nan Goldin, Rodney Graham, Andreas Gursky, John Gutmann, Jonathan Hernández, Candida Höfer, Horst P. Horst, John Houck, Barbara Kasten, Seydou Keïta, Annette Kelm, André Kertész, Luisa Lambri, Elad Lassry, Adolf Lazi, Jochen Lempert, Matt Lipps, Daniel Joseph Martinez, Asier Mendizabal, Enrique Metinides, Tina Modotti, Jonathan Monk, Charlotte Moth, Jean-Luc Moulène, Óscar Muñoz, Davida Nemeroff, Kori Newkirk, Kiyoshi Niiyama, CatherineOpie, Gabriel Orozco, Irving Penn, Marta María Pérez Bravo, Pratchaya Phinthong, John Priola, Albert Renger-Patzsch, Thomas Ruff, Asha Schechter, Collier Schorr, Erin Shirreff, Aaron Siskind, Simon Starling, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Ron Terada, Wolfgang Tillmans, Jeff Wall, Weegee, James Welling, Edward Weston, Chris Wiley, Mariana Yampolsky
Curated by Jens Hoffmann