SFMoMA Museum of Modern Art

Face of Our Time

02 Jun - 16 Oct 2011

© Jim Goldberg
Making Fire, Democratic Republic of Congo, 2008
chromogenic print
Collection SFMOMA, purchase through a gift of Nicola Miner and Robert Mailer Anderson
FACE OF OUR TIME
Jim Goldberg, Daniel Schwartz, Zanele Muholi, Jacob Aue Sobol, Richard Misrach
2 July - 16 October, 2011

Face of our Time presents the work of five photographers who share an interest in making pictures that capture what the world looks like. They observe the sometimes-volatile civil and political transformations facing society, recording history as it unfolds over time. Goldberg gives voice to the experiences of refugees in socially and economically devastated African countries. Schwartz studies the effects of globalization across central Asia's ancient Silk Route. Muholi provides a visual identity for the queer black population so often marginalized in her native South Africa. Aue Sobol combines observations of the rural hunting culture in a remote Arctic village with intimate portraits of his girlfriend, Sabine. And Misrach photographs the graffiti left behind in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
 

Tags: Jim Goldberg, Richard Misrach, Zanele Muholi