KANSAS CITY SOCIETY FOR CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY
October 13 - November 10, 2017
CURRENT WORKS
Kansas City Artists Coalition’s Mallin and Jacqueline B. Charno Galleries
The Kansas City Society for Contemporary Photography’s third annual juried member photography exhibition presented in partnership with the Kansas City Artists Coalition.
Juror
Keith Davis, Senior Curator, Photography at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art will judge the exhibition.
Davis received his B.S. degree (1974) from Southern Illinois University and his M.A. (1979) from the University of New Mexico. In 1978-79 he held a research internship at the George Eastman House, Rochester, NY. He guided the growth of the Hallmark Photographic Collection from 1979 to 2005. When the collection was transferred to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in late 2005, he became the museum’s founding curator of photography.
Davis has curated nearly one hundred exhibitions and is the author of about 35 books books and catalogues, including: An American Century of Photography: From Dry-Plate to Digital (1999); American Horizons: The Photographs of Art Sinsabaugh (2004); The Art of Frederick Sommer (2005); The Origins of American Photography: From Daguerreotype to Dry-Plate (2007); The Photographs of Homer Page (2009); Timothy H. O’Sullivan: The King Survey Photographs (2011); The Photographs of Ray K. Metzker (2012); Emmet Gowin (2013); Multitude, Solitude: The Photographs of Dave Heath (2015); and The Life and Work of Sid Grossman (2016).
Davis received an NEH Fellowship in 1986, and was included in James Stourton’s Great Collectors of Our Time: Art Collecting Since 1945 (2007). He has lectured extensively and taught the history of photography at the undergraduate and graduate levels from 1978 to 2005.
UNDERGROUND
DEBBIE WILLIAMS “The quintessential “memory keeper,” Williams photographs to preserve the bounty she has the opportunity to observe both in daily round and during any travels she is privileged to enjoy. Over the last few years, Williams has discovered that her photographs allow others to journey with her to botanical gardens, her alma mater Princeton University, international tourist sites, and to her backyard even if they cannot join her in person. Williams primarily photographs botanicals in domestic or neighborhood settings, along with vacation sites with my family and friends.
DIANE MORGAN‘s work has evolved over the years from exhibiting extreme awareness and appreciation for the multitude of details that fill her vision and drive daily existence to now include capturing the sensations she feels physically and emotionally from what she sees. Morgan is fascinated by the architectural aspects of objects in corners. The atmosphere of things unsaid is what moves her. Morgan finds inspiration by walking in areas with decay – neighborhoods or places to find evidence of life and individual effort – and visualizing those who inhabit them.
