Imperfect Innocence
The Debra and Dennis Scholl Collection Published by Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art/Contemporary Art Museum, Baltimore.
Artwork by Miriam Backsrom, Gordon Matta Clark, Lynne Cohen, Naomi Fisher, Dara Friedman, Paul Pfieffer, Bettina Von Zwehl, Doug Aitken, Janine Antoni, Uta Barth, Thomas Demand, Stan Douglas, Olafur Eliasson, Robert Gober, Douglas Gordon, Dan Graham. Photographs by Gregory Crewdson, Rineke Dijkstra, Rineke Dijkstra, Willie Doherty, Anna Gaskell, Nan Goldin, Nan Goldin, Katy Grannan, Candida Hŕfer, Catherine Opie, Thomas Ruff, Gregor Schneider, Cindy Sherman, Thomas Struth, Hellen van Meene, Hilla BecEdited by Michael Rush, Nancy Spector. Text by James Rondeau, Gary Sangster, Tacita Dean. Janine Antoni photographs a pair of hands joined in a M‡bius strip of long, polished fingernails; John Baldessari commingles images of politics and handguns and primary-colored spheres; John Coplans offers his feet as self-portrait; Gregory Crewdson tells the cinematic, mysterious tale of a random street in some suburbia somewhere; Thomas Demand constructs the illusion of a soundproof room; Rineke Dijkstra portrays herself as a bather at an indoor pool in Amsterdam; Anna Gaskell shows a drowning Alice (or is she treading water?); Dan Graham sites New Houses behind Chain Link Fence, Jersey City, Ny; and Andreas Gursky reveals the frenzy of the Chicago Board of Trade. These photographs and many, many more form the Miami-based collection Debra and Dennis Scholl have amassed over the last two decades. Representing an important selection of the major figures in contemporary American and European photography, they are here accompanied by essays from Nancy Spector, James Rondeau, and Michael Rush, three of the most important curators of contemporary art.
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