PAST EXHIBITION

Arbus/Avedon/Model: Selections From the Bank of America LaSalle Collection

May 16, 2008—September 7, 2008

This exhibition brings together works by three of the most important photographers of the 1960s: Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, and Lisette Model. The intense creative relationships between these artists helped to generate a new look in photographic portraiture, and idiosyncratic approaches to both style and subject. Widely seen in magazines and on gallery walls, their works were revolutionary for the time, and even today retain the ability to shock us with the boldness of their vision. The fifteen now-classic works in this exhibition are drawn from the exceptional corporate collection of photography initiated at the LaSalle Bank of Chicago by Beaumont Newhall in 1969, and recently acquired by Bank of America. The exhibition is organized by Brian Wallis, Chief Curator at the International Center of Photography.

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