Metro Pictures Gallery
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| + | Metro Pictures is an American gallery known for photographic work by artists like [[Cindy Sherman]]. The gallery, founded in 1980 by the dealer Helene Winer, also shows American painter and sculptor [[Robert Longo]] and German painter [[André Butzer]]. | ||
| - | [[Sherrie Levine]] is best known for the work shown in "[[After Edward Weston]]," her [[1980]] solo exhibition at the [[Metro Pictures Gallery]]. The works consist of famous [[Walker Evans]] photographs, rephotographed by Levine out of an Evans exhibition catalog, and then presented as Levine's artwork with no further manipulation of the images. The Evans photographs—made famous by his book project ''[[Let Us Now Praise Famous Men]]'', with writings by [[James Agee]]—are widely considered to be the quintessential photographic record of the rural American poor during the [[great depression]]. By appropriating these images, Levine can be said to be raising questions about class, identity, the political uses of imagery, the nature of creativity, and the ways in which context affects the viewing of photographs. | ||
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| - | *[[Appropriation art]] | ||
| - | *[[Neo-conceptual art]] | ||
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Metro Pictures is an American gallery known for photographic work by artists like Cindy Sherman. The gallery, founded in 1980 by the dealer Helene Winer, also shows American painter and sculptor Robert Longo and German painter André Butzer.
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