The Summer Viewing List

As summer kicks into full swing, most of us will be taking some time off at some point for a few moments of rest and relaxation. In the event your travels take you somewhere exciting for your vacation and you're looking for your fix of photography, we proudly offer you our unofficial, incomplete and clearly biased Summer Viewing List, detailing many museum exhibits and gallery shows around the world (in no particular order) that we would make a point to see if we found ourselves in the right place at the right time.

Surely, there are plenty more photography shows on view wherever you might go than we've chosen for this edited list, and I'm certain we will now receive a flood of additional announcements, tips, and flames for those we have missed or omitted. So we'll be happy to update the list if something great comes out of the woodwork, but hopefully this collection should give you somewhere to start.


United States

Masterworks of American Photography: Moments in Time @Amon Carter Museum (here), Fort Worth, through January 3

Ways of Seeing: The Photography of Ishimoto Yasuhiro @Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (here), through September 13

Daido Moriyama, Tokyo Photographs @Philadelphia Museum of Art (here), Philadelphia, through August 23

Tom Arndt's Minnesota @Minneapolis Institute of Arts (here), Minneapolis, through August 23

Viva Mexico! Edward Weston and His Contemporaries @Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (here), through November 2

For My Best Beloved Sister Mia: An Album of Photographs by Julia Margaret Cameron @Portland Museum of Art (here), through September 7

Photography on Display: Modern Treasures @Art Institute of Chicago (here), through September 13

Form and Movement: Photographs by Philip Trager @National Building Museum (here), Washington D.C., through January 3

Directions: Walead Beshty: Legibility on Color Backgrounds @Hirshorn Museum (here), Washington, D.C., through September 13

Jaromir Funke and the Amateur Avant-Garde @National Gallery of Art (here), Washington, D.C., through August 9

Concrete Abstractions: A Gift of Photographs by Aaron Siskind from Joe d’Angerio, Nancy Foy and Family @California Museum of Photography (here), Riverside, through August 29

Looking In: Robert Frank's "The Americans" @SFMOMA (here), San Francisco, through August 23

Richard Avedon, Photographs 1946-2004 @SFMOMA (here), San Francisco, through November 29

Nicholas Nixon, Self & City @Fraenkel Gallery (here), San Francisco, through August 15

Paul Outerbridge: Command Performance @Getty Center (here), Los Angeles, through August 8

Vera Lutter @Gagosian Gallery (here), Beverly Hills, through September 12

Brett Weston: Out of the Shadow @Santa Barbara Museum of Art (here), through August 16

At the Crossroads of American Photography: Callahan, Siskind, Sommer @Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (here), Scottsdale, through August 9

Richard Misrach: On the Beach @High Museum of Art (here), Atlanta, through August 23



International

Happy Birthday Bauhaus!/Umbo 1952 @Galerie Kicken Berlin (here), through December 19

Nude Visions: 150 Years of Body Images in Photography @Stadtmuseum Munich (here), through September 13

Women @Galerie Priska Pasquer (here), Cologne, through September 1

Hans van der Meer, Work & Play @Nederlands Fotomuseum (here), Rotterdam, through August 23

Guy Tillim, Avenue Patrice Lumumba @FOAM (here), Amsterdam, through August 30

Regeneration - 50 Photographers of Tomorrow @PREUS Museum (here), Horten, through August 30

Parrworld: The Collection of Martin Parr @Jeu De Paume (here), Paris, through September 27

Edward Burtynsky, Australian Minescapes @Australian Centre for Photography (here), Sydney, through August 22

Walid Raad, The Atlas Group (1989-2004) @Museum Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (here), Madrid, through August 31

Out of Town Museum Shows (Volume 2)

Last week, we updated our Out of Town Gallery Show list. With this post, we're updating its sister list (the Out of Town Museum Shows we'd like to see) to include a number of new exhibits open through the rest of this season and into the New Year.

Modern Photographs: The Machine, the Body, and the City: Selections from the Charles Cowles Collection @Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
Through November 30th

Abstraction in American Photography @St. Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO
Through December 14th

Paul Caponigro, Select Photographs: 1956 through 2005 @Hallmark Museum of Contemporary Photography, Turner Falls, MA
Through December 14th

Brought to Light: Photography and the Invisible, 1840-1900 @SFMOMA, San Francisco
Through January 4th

Coming Into Focus: Jeane von Oppenheim and Photography at the Norton, 1998-2008 @ Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
Through January 4th

Henri Cartier-Bresson and the Art and Photography of Paris @Art Institute of Chicago
Through January 4th

Carleton Watkins, Stereoviews of the Columbia River Gorge @Oregon Historical Society, Portland, OR
Through January 11th

Masterpiece Photographs from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts: The Curatorial legacy of Carroll T. Hartwell @Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis
Through January 25th

A Story of Photography: The Marjorie and Leonard Vernon Collection @LACMA, Los Angeles
Through February 1st

Georgia O’Keefe and the Camera: The Art of Identity @Georgia O’Keefe Museum, Santa Fe, NM
Through February 1st

Harry Callahan, Eleanor @RISD Museum, Providence, RI
Through February 15th

Dialogue Among Giants: Carleton Watkins and the Rise of Photography in California @Getty Center, Los Angeles
Through March 1st

Oceans, Rivers, and Skies: Ansel Adams, Robert Adams, Alfred Stieglitz @National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Through March 15th

Imogen Cunningham, Edward Weston, Ansel Adams: Modern Photography at the Museum @Monterey Art Museum, Monterey, CA
Through March 22nd

Liu Zheng, The Chinese @Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
Through April 26th

As always, if you're a collector and have seen any of these shows, give us your thoughts in the Comments section.

Out of Town Gallery Shows (Volume 2)

Earlier in the fall, we offered a list of out of town gallery shows that we would have enjoyed seeing, had we been in the right city at the right time. With this post, we're updating that list to include a number of new shows open through the rest of this season and into the New Year.

Frank Breuer @Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
Through November 26th

Vik Muniz, Paper Trails @ Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco
Through November 29th

Wolfgang Tillmans, Half Page @Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Through December 6th

Hiroshi Sugimoto, Portraits & Drive-In Theaters @Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington, D.C.
Through December 20th

Great Women of Photography: Berenice Abbott & Imogen Cunningham @Lumiere Gallery, Atlanta
Through December 23rd

Horace Bristol, Capturing LIFE, Celebrating a Century @Scott Nichols Gallery, San Francisco
Through January 3rd

Michael Wolf, Transparent City @Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco
Through January 3rd

Plus Ca Change: Daido Moriyama, Toshio Shibata, Shomei Tomatsu @Tepper Takayama Fine Arts, Boston
Through January 6th

Lee Friedlander, New Mexico @Andrew Smith Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Through January 15th

Ruth Bernhard, The Small Pictures @Robert Tat Gallery, San Francisco
Through January 17th

As always, if you're a collector and have seen any of these shows, give us your thoughts in the Comments section.

Out of Town Gallery Shows (Volume 1)

With the new fall season upon us and the auction catalogues showing up on our doorstep on a daily basis, the posts in the next few weeks will be filled with gallery show reviews and auction previews. As such, I wanted to make sure that a few shows going on in other places around the world don't get lost in the shuffle. So here are a handful of gallery exhibits that we would enjoy seeing if we were lucky enough to be in their towns (all are open now):

Lucien Herve @Michael Hoppen Gallery, London
Through October 11th

William Christenberry @Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington, DC
Through October 25th

Alec Soth, Dog Days, Bogota @Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago
Through October 25th

Garry Winogrand, The Sixties @Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
Through November 1st

Gotz Diergarten, METROpolis @Kicken Berlin
Through December 2nd

As always, if you're a collector and have seen any of these shows, give us your thoughts in the Comments section.

Out of Town Museum Shows (Volume 1)

From time to time, we plan to generate a list of some of the museum shows that are on view elsewhere that we find of interest and wish we could see in person. (We will cover a similar group of out of town gallery shows/exhibits in a separate post at some point soon.) There are plenty of places to get an exhaustive roll call of exhibits across the nation and the world; our goal is to provide an edited group that highlights our point of view (listed in order of closing date, starting with soonest). We plan only to list shows that are open now.

1.) The Hunter Gifts @Norton Museum of Art
Through September 7th
2.) Peter Henry Emerson and American Naturalistic Photography @Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Through September 7th
3.) Out of The Shadow: Brett Weston @Phillips Collection
Through September 7th
4.) Basic Forms: Bernd & Hilla Becher and People of the Twentieth Century: August Sander @Getty Center
Through September 14th
5.) Philip Lorca-diCorcia @LA County Museum of Art
Through September 14th

6.) Wildflowers of New England: Edwin Hale Lincoln @De Young Museum

Through September 21st

7.) Biographical Landscape: Stephen Shore @Haggerty Museum of Art
Through September 28th
8.) Beneath the Roses: Gregory Crewdson @Cincinnati Art Museum
Through October 5th
9.) Accommodating Nature: Frank Gohlke @Center for Creative Photography
Through October 26th

10.) Mexico: Edward Weston @Phoenix Art Museum

Through November 15th
11.) On Reading: Andre Kertesz @Portland Museum of Art
Through November 16th

If you are a collector and have seen or are planning to see any of these shows, please feel free to post a short review in the Comments section. We'd love to get a first hand view of how these show look and feel.