Guggenheim Museum Presents ‘Family Pictures’ Exhibit

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NEW YORK CITY — The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum will present “Family Pictures,” on exhibit February 9–April 16.

“Family Pictures,” an exhibition drawn from the museum’s collection, explores the representation of families and children in contemporary photography and video. Since its inception in the mid-Nineteenth Century, photography has always been used to represent the bonds of family, whether through portraiture or documents of important familial milestones.

In these images, fleeting moments of childhood are captured and preserved while the family unit is fixed for posterity. Family Pictures includes both documentary-style and staged work by contemporary artists including Janine Antoni, Patty Chang, Gregory Crewdson, Rineke Dijkstra, Anna Gaskell, Loretta Lux, Sally Mann, Robert Mapplethorpe, Tracey Moffatt, Catherine Opie, Thomas Struth, Hellen van Meene and Gillian Wearing.

This exhibition first appeared at the Galleria Gottardo in Lugano, Switzerland; in New York, it will include additional artists and recent acquisitions.

The museum is at 1071 Fifth Avenue. For more information, www.guggenheim.org or 212-423-3500.