Whitney Museum of American Art

Ken Ohara: CONTACTS is artist Ken Ohara's (b. 1942) first U.S. institutional solo exhibition. Featuring twenty-two photographs and four accompanying documents from his groundbreaking series CONTACTS (1974–76), this exhibition showcases Ohara’s innovative photographic experiment, where he mailed a preloaded camera to strangers across the U.S., instructing them to document their own lives before passing the camera along. During this […]

Since the early 1970s, artist, activist, and scholar Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe (b. 1951, Chicago, IL; lives and works in South Kent, CT) has made photographs that testify to the beauty and complexity of Black life, honoring the rhythms of the everyday and marking important rites of passage for the people who appear in them.  In 1977, following an […]