A Dialogue about Recent American and European Photography consists of approximately fifty works by five European and five American artists spanning a period between the late 1960s and the present. The exhibition attempted to reflect the curators' different viewpoints on recent photographic practices in the United States and Europe.
The American artists – Dan Graham, Larry Johnson, Hirsch Perlman, Allan Sekula, Cindy Sherman – raised questions about representation and photographic meaning through the languages of the mass media, documentary photography, and architecture. The European artists – Craigie Horsfield, Suzanne Lafont, Jean-Louis Schoelkopf, Thomas Struth, Patrick Tosani – explored issues of history, otherness, the human body, and the way viewers experience photographs.
A Dialogue about Recent American and European Photography was organized Ann Goldstein, Associate Curator, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and Jean-Francois Chevrier, a Paris-based art historian and independent curator.