The 1970s was a decade of uncertainty in the United States. The country’s profound upheaval formed the backdrop for a revolution in documentary photography. Activism and a growing awareness and acceptance of diversity opened the field to underrepresented voices. At the same time, artistic experimentation fueled the reimagining of what documentary photographs could look like.

Featuring some 100 works by more than 80 artists, The ʼ70s Lens examines how photographers reinvented documentary practice during this radical shift in American life. 
 

Thomas Barrow is included in the exhibition On The Grid: Ways of Seeing in Print at the Francis Lehman Loeb Art Center in Poughkeepsie, NY.

Thomas Barrow is featured in the exhibition Longer Ways to Go: Photography of the American Road at the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, AZ. The show explores the symbiotic relationship between photogrpahy and the folklore of the American highway. 

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We are pleased to announce that works by Thomas Barrow are included in Shifting Light: Photographic Perspectives at the New Mexico Museum of Art in Santa Fe. On view from November 25, 2017 until November 4, 2018, the exhibition offers a twenty-first century perspective on the museum's long term engagement with the popular medium of photography. 

For more information, please visit www.nmartmuseum.org. 

This exhibition explores the history of the medium as a lucid, literate—but not always literal—tool of persuasion. A collaboration with the George Eastman Museum, the show features more than eighty works from the 1840s to the present and reveals the many ways the camera can transmit not only the outward appearance of its subject but also narratives, arguments, and ideas. Drawn chiefly from the Eastman Museum’s rich holdings, and supplemented by works from the Morgan and a private collector, this exhibition features work by William Henry Fox Talbot, Eadweard Muybridge, John Heartfield, Lewis Hine, John Baldessari, Sophie Calle, Bernd and Hilla Becher, and Thomas Barrow, among many others.

Sight Reading is co-organized by the Morgan Library & Museum and the George Eastman Museum, Rochester. Sight Reading: Photography and the Legible World will be on view at the George Eastman Museum June 18 - September 18, 2016. 

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Curated by Miguel Gandert, Distinguished Professor of Communications and Journalism, and Chris Wilson, J. B. Jackson Chair of Cultural Landscape Studies

Lee Freidlander, Steve Fitch, Thomas Barrow, Lewis Baltz, Joe Deal, Frank Gohlke, Nicholas Nixon, Kenneth Winston Baird, Hilla and Bernd Becher, Sabine Delcour, Gus, Foster, Lynn Geesaman, Debora Hunter, William Henry Jackson, Danny Lyon, Joan Meyer, Beaumont Newhall, Bernard Plossu, Edward Ruscha, David Stephenson, Edward Weston and Steve Yates, Edouard Baldus, Francis Frith, Carlton E. Watkins, Eugene Atget, Walker Evans, and Henri Cartier-Bresson.

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