Please join us for an opening reception with the artist on Friday, February 29, from 5-8PM.

Stephen Daiter Gallery is proud to present our inaugural one-person exhibition of the work of Kenneth Josephson. A restless and experimental photographer and teacher, Kenneth has called Chicago home for most of the last fifty years while making photographs and films and teaching at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Always a traveler, Josephson has expanded his adventurous photographic itinerary since retiring from the SAIC in 1997. In 1999 a major monograph, Kenneth Josephson: A Retrospective, was published by the Art Institute with texts by Sylvia Wolf and Andy Grundberg, with the show traveling to New York's Whitney Museum. Kenneth Josephson has been published, exhibited and collected widely. He joins the Stephen Daiter Gallery (our thanks for Rhona Hoffman's assistance after her gallery's long and fruitful relationship with Kenneth) and is now represented alongside other well known artists who have graduated from the famed Institute of Design (I. D.)–Barbara Crane, Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Joseph Jachna, and Joseph Sterling, among others. Daiter Gallery also deals extensively in the work of Josephson's two major influences at the I. D.–Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind. Josephson studied with these seminal figures before creating his own highly original conceptual and sensual body of work that has brought him international recognition and success.

Illustrated catalogue available at the opening–with an essay by A. D. Coleman, award-winning author, photography critic and lecturer. His books include Light Readings, Tarnished Silver, and The Digital Evolution, which Wired magazine called "required reading for today's media-savvy or information-obsessed artist." Introduction by Sylvia Wolf, who was recently named Director of the Henry Art Museum, University of Washington, Seattle. This follows photography curatorships at both the Art Institute of Chicago and the
Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City.


Click here to read Chicago Tribune review of Kenneth Josephson: The First Fifty Years
Click here to read Sun Times review of Kenneth Josephson: The First Fifty Years