Words and Photographs: Gauri Gill / Wolf von dem Bussche

August 20–November 21, 2024

Gallery 213
Free admission
Friends of Photography

Part of a series of small exhibitions highlighting the museum’s rich photography collection, Words and Photographs features two recently-acquired bodies of black and white photography. Wolf von dem Bussche photographed his series O Frabjous Day! in New York in the 1970s, while Gauri Gill made her series Jannat in rural India in the early 2000s. Although working in different times, places, and cultural contexts, both artists reflect on the complex life of a child. Both use the written word as an integral facet of their artwork, and both push the boundaries of documentary photography by exploring their deep personal relationships with those they photograph.

Jannat is the most recent addition to the museum’s growing holding of photography by South Asian artists and the third major work by Gill to join the collection since 2018. Photographs by von dem Bussche are drawn from a significant recent gift of the artist’s work from collectors Susan and Jeff Lynn.

This exhibition has an accessible pathway.

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