Outsiders: American Photography and Film 1950s-1980s

Description

Like Invisibles and Snapshots of Dangerous Women, Outsiders is an accessible visual tour through life experienced on the margins of mainstream society. Squired through the social turmoil of the 1950s, 60s, and 70s by artists like Diane Arbus and Nan Goldin, Outsiders is an unforgettable look at people whose identity is in flux. Idealists, outsiders, and those brave enough to be themselves shot by visionary photographers including Diane Arbus, Garry Winogrand, and Nan Goldin reveal the roots of America's influential counterculture.

Sophie Hackett is a writer and Associate Curator, Photography, at the Art Gallery of Ontario; she curated or co-curated many exhibitions at the AGO including Barbara Kruger: Untitled (It) (2010); Max Dean (2012); What It Means To be Seen: Photography and Queer Visibility and Fan the Flames: Queer Positions in Photography (2014); and Introducing Suzy Lake (2014). She is the co-curator of Outsiders. Jim Shedden is the Manager of Publishing at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Prior to this, he was with Bruce Mau Design and at the AGO as a film curator and performing arts programmer. Shedden directed films on Michael Snow and Stan Brakhage and a feature documentary, I Drink. He has written extensively on music, film, video, art, and design, and has been involved in the artist-run scene in Toronto since the late 1980s. He is the co-curator of Outsiders. Kate Bussard is Peter C. Bunnell curator of photography at Princeton University, New Jersey. Lia Gangitano is the founder of Participant, Inc., an alternative gallery space in New York. Martha Kirszenbaum is an independent curator and writer based in Paris, and the director and curator of the Flax Foundation, Los Angeles. Tess Takahashi is an assistant professor of film at York University, Toronto