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Photo Flashback: Selections from the Permanent Collection

Felicia Lewandowski, curator

University of Kansas Museum of Art, Lawrence, Kansas

This exhibition displays the best of the photographs acquired during 1974. Subjects range from humor and social comment to architectural design. Cecil Beaton's famous photograph of Marilyn Monroe is featured. Included is documentary photography recording social conditions and life styles by Walker vans, Paul Strand, Tony Ray-Jones, Leonard Freed and Richard Cross; early platinotypes by Frederick Evans; and examples of humor, experimentalism and formalism, by Erwitt, Savage and Bruguierre. Other artists represented are Bea Nettles, Richard Matthews, John Schulze and David Wing.

Works of art

Naomi Savage (1927–2005), Psalter

John Shultze, Totem

Richard Mathews, South Coast

Stuart David Klipper (born 1941), Boston, July 1973

Stuart David Klipper (born 1941), Harmon Place, Minneapolis Fall 1973

Richard Cross (1950–1983), Dakota Man, South Dakota, 1972

Richard Cross (1950–1983), Intelligence, Intensity, Madness, Chicago, 1972

David Wing (born 1947), Mt. Rushmore National Monument, South Dakota

David Wing (born 1947), Near Norris, South Dakota

Bea Nettles (born 1946), Rainy Day Heart...

Walker Evans (1903–1975), Main Street, Saratoga Springs, NY

Frederick Henry Evans (1853–1943), North Porch, Wells Cathedral

Frederick Henry Evans (1853–1943), Church of St. Lazare, Avallon

John Everett Millais (1829–1896), Happy Springtime

Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton (1904–1980), Marilyn Monroe

Tony Ray-Jones (1941–1972), Durham Miners' Gala

Tony Ray-Jones (1941–1972), Fourth of June, Eton

Tony Ray-Jones (1941–1972), Morecambe

Tony Ray-Jones (1941–1972), Opening of May Queen Fair, Maidstone, England

Elliott Erwitt (1928–2023), Miami, Florida

Elliott Erwitt (1928–2023), Guanajuato, Mexico

Leonard Freed (1929–2006), A Young Boy Plays "Tough" in the Streets of Harlem

Betty Hahn (born 1940), Road and Rainbow