Keith Johnson: Photography and the Social Landscape » Exhibitions

Still River Editions Gallery

KJ — Tue, 10 May 2011 14:20:52 +0000

A fun exhibition with good friend and printer Mark Savoia. We are 2011 CT Commission on Culture and Tourism fellows.

Recent Work at Kehler Liddell Gallery

KJ — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 13:53:42 +0000

Exhibition at Panopticon Gallery

KJ — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 13:41:13 +0000

CWOS

KJ — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 15:25:22 +0000

Erector Square

315 Peck Street

Bldg. 5 3rd Floor

New Haven, CT

City Wide-Open Studios

Earth & Sky Exhibition

KJ — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 17:13:56 +0000

Aerial Photographs

Opening September 1 at Mercy Gallery at Loomis Chaffee School in Windsor, CT is a four person show including my piece Aerial Photographs, and work by John Mullin, Leila Daw, and Susan Scott.

Callahan at the MFA Boston

KJ — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 16:23:01 +0000

We went to see the Callahan show of about 50 pictures at the MFA yesterday. It was a perfect way to close out (visually) 2009. Becky suggested that Callahan had quite an influence on my work: GUILTY. A couple of pictures stood out: a woman on the street in Chicago in a very light green coat and hat probably from the early 50s; a four panel grid of tree limbs looking up form Atlanta in 1993. Marvelous pictures. Yes, Harry was (remains) quite an influence.

Robert Frank at the Metropolitan

KJ — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:37:41 +0000

I was a tad reluctant to go to the Met Wednesday; haven’t we seen enough of The Americans already? I had never seen its entirety as an exhibition with some rather large prints laid out as in the book through 5 or 6 rooms. I have to say the sequence had never read as clearly nor as succinctly as it does that way. The Americans is truly a book in my mind, but having known the work for 40 years it remains brilliant, ground-breaking, and formative for me and my photography. There were always some pictures that were less resonant, particularly from the Montana timeframe, but yesterday I was completely satisfied. Furthermore the art of sequencing photographs (which I have be long steeped in-thanks, Nathan-makes the meanings deeper and more satisfying. I learned some stuff, yet again. Happy Thanksgiving.

Griffin Museum

KJ — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:37:15 +0000

New Topographics Redux

KJ — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:59:54 +0000

for the second time in 34 years I spent some time at the New Topographics show at GEH. the house has re-hung the seminal show from 1975 not in the original gallery but the adjacent one, 100 prints from the original exhibition. Talk about a personal history of photography. I distictly remember having a railing experience about Hank Wessel’s work for at least an hour as Paul Hester and I drove back to Providence from Rochester. How impactful the show became when my generation began to teach the edicts of the show and then those students carried on the tradition. My feelings have changed about the work in the show over the years and now taking a class there yeaterday heard my speaking in reverential terms about the work. True, photography has moved along and different ideas are embraced now, and Rick Hock said “it was no big deal”, it still remains a seminal work. I am delighted to spen time with it.

Exhibition Trifecta

KJ — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:22:36 +0000

This coming fall I will be having three concurrent exhibitions in Boston:

Panopticon Gallery in Kenmore Square at the Hotel Commonwealth will show recent Grids

September 16-November 8, 2009;

New England School of Photography in Kenmore square as well will show Extended Landscapes

August 24-October 2, 2009;

and the Griffin Museum in Winchester, MA will show Suite Niagara

August 27-October 5, 2009.