The City Lost and Found: Capturing New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, 1960–1980
Kenneth Josephson (American, born 1932), Chicago, 1969. Photo collage; 10.4 × 14.9 cm, 36.2 × 46.4 cm (frame). The Art Institute of Chicago, gift of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1970.810 (L.2015.7.14)
The Art Institute of Chicago
The Art Institute of Chicago111 South Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60603
USA
Princeton University Art Museum
Princeton, NJ 08544-1018USA
A collaboration between the Art Institute of Chicago and the Princeton University Art Museum, The City Lost and Found focuses on creative responses to urban change in three major American cities—New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles—during a seminal period in their transformation. The exhibition focuses on how photography was used by architects, filmmakers, artists, urban planners, and activists to project images of the future city to the public, frame the stakes of urban transformation, and contest and appropriate urban spaces in these three cities for different artistic and political ends. Structured around themes that define debates and representation in these three cities, including Comprehensive City Plans, Infrastructure, Housing, Demonstration, and Preservation, The City Lost and Found captures the complex social, conceptual, and aesthetic engagements with the city by some of the most important artists, planners, filmmakers, activists, and architects of the era, from architect Paul Rudolph to performance artist Allan Kaprow. A fully illustrated publication addressing the complex relationship between visual culture, social history, public policy, and city planning accompanies the exhibition.
Curated by
Curator of Photography
,Princeton University Art Museum
Sponsor Credit
The City Lost and Found: Capturing New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, 1960-1980 has been organized by the Art Institute of Chicago and the Princeton University Art Museum. The exhibition at Princeton has been made possible by generous support from Christopher E. Olofson, Class of 1992; the Bagley Wright, Class of 1946, Contemporary Art Fund; Susan and John Diekman, Class of 1965; Sakurako and William Fisher, Class of 1979, through the Sakana Foundation; an anonymous fund; the Virginia and Bagley Wright, Class of 1946, Program Fund for Modern and Contemporary Art; M. Robin Krasny, Class of 1973; David H. McAlpin Jr., Class of 1950; James R. and Valerie A. McKinney; the Allen R. Adler, Class of 1967, Exhibitions Fund; and Elchin Safarov and Dilyara Allakhverdova. Further support has been made possible by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts; and by the Partners and Friends of the Princeton University Art Museum. The publication has been made possible by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; the Barr Ferree Foundation Fund for Publications, Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University; and Christopher E. Olofson, Class of 1992.
