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Barbara Probst: Exposures
April 6 - June 2, 2007
Exposure #39A: N.Y.C., 545 8th Avenue, 3.23.06, 1:17 p.m.,
Ultrachrome ink on cotton paper
2 parts, 66 × 44 inches each
In conjunction with the exhibition Barbara Probst: Exposures, the Museum is working with Steidl Publishers to release a monograph of the artist’s work in Spring 2007. The exhibition premiers at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in April of 2007, and then will be open to travel through June 2009.
The exhibition is comprised of fourteen groupings from Barbara Probst’s series Exposures (2000-2006). This series dissects the relationship between the photographic “moment” and perceived reality by showing a single action from numerous points of view. Probst arranges for multiple photographers to take pictures of the same subject from varying angles (and distances) at precisely the same moment.
The multiple exposures are more than a meditation on the event being recorded — the images examine the act of reading photographs as documents of the actions or people they depict. While one may suggest voyeuristic qualities, another incorporates the slipshod framing of a snapshot, and another image may more closely resemble a runway shot of a model on the move. In this way Probst’s sequences point out that the different ways we “direct” a photograph, by the position, settings, and film of the camera, can produce images with entirely disparate spheres of meaning.
Please see our traveling exhibitions page for information on this exhibition.
The publication Barbara Probst: Exposures has been supported by the Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation and co-published by Steidl and the MoCP. The programming surrounding the exhibition has been planned in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut, Chicago. The exhibitions, presentations, and related programs of the MoCP are sponsored in part by the Lloyd A. Fry Foundation; the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency; The Mayer and Morris Kaplan Family Foundation; The National Endowment for the Arts; the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs/After School Matters; American Airlines, the official airline of the MoCP; and our members.