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        "tombstone": "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",
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        "title": "Wyoming",
        "creation_date": "1971",
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        "technique": "gelatin silver print",
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        "department": "Photography",
        "collection": "PH - American 1951-Present",
        "type": "Photograph",
        "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.)",
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                "inscription": "Written in pencil on verso: \"TOP NR.460 M+L \u00a9 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\"\r\n\r\nLine drawn in pencil with arrows on verso of photograph with pencil text: \"30cm 71-35-1/B-4/5 \u00a9 11 Please return to:/KENNETH JOSEPHSON/1426 N. PAULINA/CHICAGO, IL./60622\"\r\n\r\n",
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                    "id": 199873,
                    "title": "Contemporary Landscape Photography",
                    "description": "<i>Contemporary Landscape Photography</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 26-August 14, 2011).",
                    "opening_date": "2011-03-26T00:00:00"
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        "description": "Josephson\u2019s work plays with perception, here positioning depicted reality against the reality of depiction by photographing a drawing of the Tetons against the backdrop of the real mountains themselves. The ruler and hand appear to measure the mountains against their schematic, a humorous comment on the efficacy of using two-dimensional representation as a benchmark of three-dimensional reality.",
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        "citations": [
            {
                "citation": "Kelsey, Robin. \"Photography and the Ecological Imagination.\" In <em>Nature's Nation: American Art and Environment. 394-405. </em>Karl Kusserow and Alan C. Braddock. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2018.",
                "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 398",
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        "creditline": "Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund",
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                "biography": "Kenneth Josephson American, 1932-\r\n\r\nKenneth 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).\r\n\tBorn 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.\r\n\tJosephson 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.",
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