Surveillance at the Wichita Art Museum

Surveillance group exhibition featuring Blue Sky Days, November 11, 2017 to March 4, 2018

Wichita Art Museum
1400 West Museum Boulevard
Wichita, KS 67203
USA

Who is watching you? In the 21st century, it is hard to escape the camera’s all-seeing eye. With every movement recorded by cameras, it is difficult to remember that surveillance is not a modern construct. This exhibition examines photography’s role in secretive looking from the 1860s to today.

Dating from 1864 to 2014, the works in this exhibition fall under categories of spying/hidden camera, photography of the forbidden, military surveillance, areas of heavy surveillance, and mapping satellites and drones. Also included are examples of counter-surveillance that either prevent watching or surveille the watchers.

The group exhibition includes works by Henri-Cartier Bresson, Paul Strand, Walker Evans, Miroslav Tichy, Trevor Paglen, Mishka Henner, and Tomas van Houtryve.

The prints in this show are on loan to the Wichita Art Museum from the permanent collection of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.