More Is More: Reinventing Photography Beyond the Frame presents singular works of art created from multiple photographs. Set in the experimental time of the mid-1960s to 1980s, the exhibition features artists who deconstructed, reconstructed, and multiplied photographs, playfully pushing photography’s physical boundaries and conceptual limits.
By the 1970s photography had clawed its way from the margins of the art world, gaining greater acceptance in museums, galleries, and university classrooms. A new generation of artists began integrating photography into their artistic practice, working alongside photographers who were already fully engaged in the medium. With this newfound adoption—particularly among Conceptual and Performance artists—photography found itself at the vanguard of creativity.
More Is More features 43 photographs by 25 artists, many of which are on view for the first time at the Nelson-Atkins. Artists in the exhibition include David Hockney, Gordon Matta-Clark, Andy Warhol, Barbara Crane, Nancy Burson, Jan Groover, John Baldessari, Lew Thomas, Vito Acconci, Eleanor Antin, Barbara Blondeau, and Ray Metzker, among many others.
More Is More is accompanied by a selection of photographs in gallery L10, featuring works by Eadweard Muybridge, Ilse Bing, Irving Penn, Edward Weston, Doris Ulmann, Clarence White, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Louis-Rémy Robert, and William Henry Jackson among others.
Organized by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Generous support provided by the Hall Family Foundation.
Header image: Jared Bark, American (born 1944). Isla Vista, California, February 27, 1974. Gelatin silver prints, 7 3/4 × 28 1/2 inches. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Gift of the Hall Family Foundation, 2018.20.1. © Jared Bark. (Cropped.)
