Image-maker John Wood celebrated with retrospective in Rochester and New York City
In photo-historical terms, Wood is thought of as one of those renegades who went against “pure photography” by incorporating drawing, painting, collage, and every other technique he could get his hands on into his practice, thus ushering in the multi-media 1960s that caused a crisis in “straight photography.”
— From the introduction by David Levi Strauss to
On the Edge of Clear Meaning by John Wood
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — A collaborative retrospective celebrating the work of John Wood will be launched this fall in Rochester, N.Y. and then travel to New York City, before embarking on a national tour. The exhibition titled John Wood: On the Edge of Clear Meaning considers Wood’s career as photographer, artist, and educator. The exhibition is a collaboration among five institutions: Rochester’s George Eastman House International Museum of Photography & Film, Visual Studies Workshop, and Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, along with New York City’s International Center of Photography (ICP) and the Grey Art Gallery of New York University. Read more »
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