id: 168526 accession number: 2010.269 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2010.269 updated: 2024-03-26 02:01:23.176000 Wyoming, 1971. Kenneth Josephson (American, 1932-). Gelatin silver print; image: 22.9 x 20.2 cm (9 x 7 15/16 in.); paper: 25.2 x 20.2 cm (9 15/16 x 7 15/16 in.); matted: 50.8 x 40.6 cm (20 x 16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 2010.269 title: Wyoming title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1971 creation date earliest: 1971 creation date latest: 1971 current location: creditline: Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund copyright: --- culture: America, 20th century technique: gelatin silver print department: Photography collection: PH - American 1951-Present type: Photograph find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Kenneth Josephson (American, 1932-) - artist Kenneth Josephson American, 1932- Kenneth Bradley Josephson's photographs are about the medium itself: its illusionistic capabilities, inherent technical properties, and shifting meanings depending on context. As a student of Aaron Siskind and Harry Callahan in Chicago at the Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology, Josephson learned the significance of abstraction and how to juxtapose and manipulate forms as tools for his clever, often surreal, tableaux. In his works he examines how an object and a photograph of that object relate, with humor and a reverence for the element of chance. In so doing, he calls attention to the two-dimensionality of the medium as a way to question our understanding of reality as it is represented photographically. His related series include Marks and Evidences of Events and Images within Images (begun 1963), History of Photography (begun 1970), and Archaeological Images (begun 1975). Born in Detroit, Josephson bought his first camera in 1944. He attended the Rochester Institute of Technology (1951-53), earning a certificate before being drafted into the armed forces in 1953. He returned to rit and earned his B.F.A. in 1957. When his wife died in 1958, Josephson moved to Chicago to attend iit (M.S., 1960), then began teaching at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1963 he was a founding member of the Society for Photographic Education and, the following year, his work was included in The Photographer's Eye, a group exhibition organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York. He has taught as an exchange teacher at the Konstfackskolan, Stockholm (1966-67), the University of Hawaii, Honolulu (1967-68), the Rhode Island School of Design (1973), and the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (1974). In 1975 Josephson traveled in India for three months, teaching upon his return at the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia. He has since taught at the University of California, Los Angeles, and continued at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Josephson has had numerous international one-person exhibitions, including a retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (1983), and received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1972) and the National Endowment for the Arts (1975, 1979). His publications include The Bread Book (1973), Portfolio: Kenneth Josephson (1975), and Kenneth Josephson, a postcard portfolio (1980). Josephson lives in Chicago. A.W. --- measurements: Image: 22.9 x 20.2 cm (9 x 7 15/16 in.); Paper: 25.2 x 20.2 cm (9 15/16 x 7 15/16 in.); Matted: 50.8 x 40.6 cm (20 x 16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Written in pencil on verso: "TOP NR.460 M+L © KENNETH JOSEPHSON/#71-35-18.20/WYOMING, 1971 (HISTORY OF/PHOTOGRAPHY SERIES) 153%/100% M 3787 #9.11 57% 9.11 IVp15 046.941.3.09 773-489-1298 131.8% 300 x180" Line drawn in pencil with arrows on verso of photograph with pencil text: "30cm 71-35-1/B-4/5 © 11 Please return to:/KENNETH JOSEPHSON/1426 N. PAULINA/CHICAGO, IL./60622" translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Contemporary Landscape Photography opening date: 2011-03-26T00:00:00 Contemporary Landscape Photography. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 26-August 14, 2011). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Artist; Gitterman Gallery, New York; Cleveland Museum of Art date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Kelsey, Robin. "Photography and the Ecological Imagination." In Nature's Nation: American Art and Environment. 394-405. Karl Kusserow and Alan C. Braddock. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2018. page number: Reproduced: p. 398 url: --- IMAGES