Mirror of the City: Imagery from Rome to
Detroit, 1450–2012, the Fall
2012 Architecture HAUD (History of Architecture and Urban Development) Graduate Practicum, explored how imagery shapes,
brands, and archives cities like Rome, Paris, Havana, New Orleans, New York,
Delhi, Detroit, and others from the 1450s to the present day. Inspired by Mirror
of the City: The Printed View in Italy and Beyond, 1450–1940, the seminar looked
at how repeatable images have shaped urban aspirations and nightmares as well
as realities. Whether a map, print, drawing, book, photograph, or film the city
as a collectible commodity about urban expansion and contraction is an issue
here.
Projecting Cities
“The city is not just a physical location; it is
also a project, a projection....”
—Jerome Herron
The multiplicity of the gaze is present within the city and its representations. Projecting Cities investigates the ways in which the inhabitant and the city project off one another to reveal the interactions between the past and the present, the technological and the topographical, the individual and the collective. This exhibition and its cities create projections onto each other, complicating and activating the spaces among the artists, inhabitants, and viewers.
Under the guidance of Professor Mary N. Woods and Andrew Weislogel, the Johnson Museum’s curator of European art before 1800, we have organized an installation (on view in the Museum’s Kress Study Gallery from December 4, 2012, to February 3, 2013) stressing the importance of multiplicities of interpretation. The works we have selected reflect a range of subjects, from a stereocard view of Picturesque Shops and Crowds in Yokohama, Japan to Harry Callahan’s Alley, Chicago mounted on two large panels, never before exhibited at the Johnson Museum. The exhibition includes a range of media, from the films of Gordon Matta-Clark to the photographs of Robert Frank and Margaret Bourke-White. We hope this carefully selected collection of works creates an internal and external dialogue for our viewers about projecting oneself into these artworks, just as the artists, subjects, and curators have done in these urban spaces.
Fall 2012 Architecture HAUD Graduate Practicum
Andrew Hart
Gökhan Kodalak
Dan Li
Anna Mascorella
Sean McGee
Annie Schentag
Vani Subramanian
Above: Abelardo Morell (American, born Cuba, 1948), Camera Obscura Image of La Giraldilla de la Habana in Room with Broken Wall (detail), 2002. Gelatin silver print mounted on aluminum. Acquired through the generosity of Diana G. Karnas and Abe Tomás Hughes II, additional support from the Jennifer, Gale, and Ira Drukier Fund.
ARCH 6805: HAUD Graduate Practicum Gallery (Click an image to open slideshow)
Underwood & Underwood (American, 1882–1940), Picturesque Shops and Crowds in Yokohama, Japan, ca. 1905-10. Albumen print. Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Henry D. Rosin.
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Robert Frank (American, born 1924), Untitled (Man Seated in a Portrait), 1952. Gelatin silver print. Gift of Arthur and Marilyn Penn '56.
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Margaret Bourke-White (American, 1904–1971), Communist Riot, Tokyo, May Day, 1952. Gelatin silver print. Gift of Margaret Bourke-White and LIFE Magazine.
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Robbert Flick (Dutch, born 1938), Downtown LA 1980 Between Maple & Flower & 6th & 5th, 1980. Gelatin silver print. Gift of Albert A. Dorskind '43.
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Qiu Zhijie (Chinese, born 1969), Untitled [April], from the series Calendar 1998,1998. Color inkjet print. Gift of the Lee C. Lee Fund for East Asian Art.
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Laszlo Moholy-Nagy (American, born Hungary, 1895–1946), Murder on the Rails, 1925. Gelatin silver print. Gift of Hattula Moholy-Nagy.
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Abelardo Morell (American, b. Cuba, 1948), Camera Obscura Image of La Giraldilla de la Habana in Room with Broken Wall, 2002. Gelatin silver print. Acquired through the generosity of Diana G. Karnas & Abe Tomás Hughes II. ›
Chinese, Han Dynasty (206 BC–AD 220), model of a house for tomb. Earthenware. Gift of John and Stella McCoy.
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Chinese, Han Dynasty (206 BC–AD 220), model of a house for tomb. Earthenware. Gift of John and Stella McCoy.
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Chinese, Han Dynasty (206 BC–AD 220), model of a granary for tomb. Earthenware. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James Stein.
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Manuel Alvarez Bravo (Mexican, 1902–2002), Dos Pares de Piernas (Two Pairs of Legs), 1928-29 (negative), ca. 1977 (print). Gelatin silver print. Gift of Dr. Lawrence Goldmuntz.
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Zheng Guogu (Chinese, born 1970), Tokyo Sky Story 4, 1998. Color inkjet print. Acquired through the Lee C. Lee Fund for East Asian Art.
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Bill Owens (American, born 1938), A Lawyer, 1980. Cibachrome print. Gift of Albert A. Dorskind '43.
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Mary Ross (American, born 1950), Runaway, Las Vegas, 1975. Cibachrome print (video generated). Gift of Membership Purchase Fund.
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Elliot Erwitt (American, born France, 1928), Confessional, Czestochowa, Poland, 1964. Gelatin silver print. Collection of Mr. Charles Balls.
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Robert Doisneau (French, 1912–1944), La Dame Indignée (The Indignant Lady), 1948 (negative), 1979 (print). Gelatin silver print. Gift of Mr. Frederick J. Myerson.
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John Humble (American, born 1944), B St. at Figueroa, Wilmington, January 25, 1980, from the portfolio Los Angeles Documentary Project, 1980. Cibachrome print. Gift of Albert A. Dorskind '43.
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Jules Chéret (French, 1836–1932), Exhibition of Arabs-Olympia-Paris Hippodrome, 1899. Color lithograph. Gift of Henry A. Starr.
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William Klein (American, born 1928), Eye and Café, Paris, 1982. Gelatin silver print. Gift of Arthur and Marilyn Penn '56.
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After Zhang Ziduan (Chinese, 1085–1145), Festival on the River (Qingming Shanghetu) [left], 19th century. Handscroll: ink and colors on paper. Gift of Drs. Lee and Connie Koppelman.
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After Zhang Ziduan (Chinese, 1085–1145), Festival on the River (Qingming Shanghetu) [center], 19th century. Handscroll: ink and colors on paper. Gift of Drs. Lee and Connie Koppelman.
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