A forward-thinking new exhibition at New York’s MoMA spotlights the contemporary image-makers paving the way for a new generation

Being: New Photography 2018, the Museum of Modern Art’s latest exhibition of contemporary photography, explores the concepts of identity and personhood in photo-based art. The exhibit considers how these ideas intersect and diverge, as well as their relativity to larger questions of modern existence and human experience. “While personhood is something that we all share, also inherent in these representations is the recognition of difference, which is especially urgent in our current moment when rights of representation are contested for many individuals,” says Lucy Gallun, MoMA’s assistant curator of photography, and the curator behind the show. “Universality in humanity does not mean sameness.”

Through a diverse collection of works, Being questions the traditions of photography, the relationship between the body and the self, the photographic perspective and its subjective influence, and the dialectics between privacy, presentation, intimacy and exposure. Five artists in Being offer particularly veritable responses to how identity is defined in the present day – as we explore here. Read More

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