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The San Jose Museum of art will showcase its growing collection of contemporary photography in an exhibition on view July 22, 2010, through March 14, 2011. Degrees of Separation: Contemporary Photography from the Permanent Collection will include several new acquisitions seen at the Museum for the first time: Melissa & Lake, Durham, North Carolina (1998) by Catherine Opie; works from the series “Midway: Message from the Gyre” (2009) by Chris Jordan; and Self-Portrait: Portrait of My Father, Manuel Fernandez (2006) by Carlee Fernandez. In addition to these recent gifts from the Lipman Family Foundation, the exhibition includes photographs by Anthony Aziz, Rebeca Bollinger, Laurie Long, Sebastião Salgado, Amy Stein, Larry Sultan, and Katherine Westerhout. Degrees of Separation presents works by contemporary photographers who explore interpersonal relationships or the fundamental relationship between humankind and the natural world.
*The museum is CLOSED on Mondays.
