Modernism
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Anonymous, American Woman Walking an Alligator (c. 1950), Courtesy Modernism, San Francisco
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July 9, 2009 – Aug 29, 2009
Tuesdays–Saturdays (10am–5:30pm)
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Walter Benjamin, reflecting on book collecting, wrote: "Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories." While we don't have access to the memories of SF Art Institute emeritus faculty member Robert Flynn Johnson, the photos from his private collection displayed in Hunted and Gathered make an elegantly chaotic cross-section of cultural memories. Mostly black-and-white images taken by anonymous photographers during photography's first few decades, the pictures range from candid snaps of the famous (Joe DiMaggio in the shower) and the unknown (a turn-of-the-century French stilt-walker), to formally striking compositions that turn the commonplace (snowflakes, thumbtacks) into small miracles.
