until Sunday November 02 2014
MoMA - The Museum of Modern Art
T : +1 (212) 708 9400
11 West 53rd Street
10019 New York
United States
This exhibition is a major survey of one of the most influential artists working in the photographic medium, confirms Christopher Williams’s (American, b. 1956) status as one of the most thoughtful and thought-provoking artists of his generation, one whose interests in his generational elders is mirrored by the impact he is currently having on younger artists.
In a career spanning over 30 years, Williams has explored the realms of photojournalism, picture archives, mass media, and commercial imaging, producing a concise oeuvre of photographs that carries an outsized impact on artists and cultural historians today.
Deeply invested in the history of photography as a medium of art and intellectual inquiry, he is committed to furthering a critique of late capitalist society, in which images typically function as agents of consumer spectacle. Williams is currently professor of photography at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, a position previously held by Thomas Ruff, Jeff Wall (fleetingly), and—for 20 illustrious years—Bernd Becher.
