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Gwen Akin and Allan Ludwig
(United States)
Untitled, 1984
Toned Silver Gelatin Print
$1,000
Signed on front
The print was given to FotoFest by the artists in the late 1980s.
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Gwen Akin and Allan Ludwig, well-known U.S. photographers based in New York, began their collaboration in 1984. They are known for their beautiful platinum prints of grotesque subjects (medical specimens and dead animals). Akin and Ludwig have published two books involving this work: Mütter Museum: of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia (New York, Blast Books, 2002) and Grotesque: natural, historical, & formaldehyde photography (Amsterdam, Fragment Uitgeverij, 1989). Other work involves investigations into gender roles and identity, as in The Women Series, an installation of more than two-hundred black-and-white photographs of women dating from the late-1800s to the 1960s. Akin and Ludwig have exhibited extensively in the U.S. and Europe, including The Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, United Kingdom; The Center for Photography at Woodstock, New York; The National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.; The Musee d’Art Moderne de la Villa de Paris; The Friends of Photography Ansel Adams Center, San Francisco; and The San Franciso Museum of Modern Art. Their work is represented in several museum collections including The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; and The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. |
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