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Milwaukee Art Museum will host "True Story: Photography, Journalism, and Media," a photography exhibition of works drawn from its collection that explore how images have affected how we view world events.
The show, with more than 100 objects – photographs, magazines, prints, collages and film – from this century and last, opens Nov. 15 in the Herzfeld Center for Photography and Media Arts on the museum's lower level, and runs through March 16.
“Highlighting artworks significant to the Museum’s collection and the history of photojournalism, True Story demonstrates how images have had the power to shape the way we understand the events of our time,” says MAM Chief Curator Elizabeth Siegel.
There are works by Robert Capa, Eugene Smith, Lewis Wickes Hine, Wayne Miller, Danny Lyon, Larry Burrows, Christian Patterson, William Weege, Bruce Conner, Taryn Simon and Robert Heinecken that look at the Civil Rights Movement as the Vietnam War as well as a car crash, a parade and a Packers game.
You can see a sampling of the images included in the exhibition here.
"'True Story' provides a glimpse into the long relationship between news and photography,” added exhibition curator Ariel Pate, who is MAM's assistant curator of photography.
“As the media landscape continues to grow and evolve, I hope our visitors gain an appreciation for media literacy as a crucial skill.”
The exhibition will be accompanied by a programming that includes a two-day World AIDS Day Commemoration, a Haberman Local Luminaries program, Gallery Talks and other events. Details are here.
Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., where he lived until he was 17, Bobby received his BA-Mass Communications from UWM in 1989 and has lived in Walker's Point, Bay View, Enderis Park, South Milwaukee and on the East Side.
He has published three non-fiction books in Italy – including one about an event in Milwaukee history, which was published in the U.S. in autumn 2010. Four more books, all about Milwaukee, have been published by The History Press.
With his most recent band, The Yell Leaders, Bobby released four LPs and had a songs featured in episodes of TV's "Party of Five" and "Dawson's Creek," and films in Japan, South America and the U.S. The Yell Leaders were named the best unsigned band in their region by VH-1 as part of its Rock Across America 1998 Tour. Most recently, the band contributed tracks to a UK vinyl/CD tribute to the Redskins and collaborated on a track with Italian novelist Enrico Remmert.
He's produced three installments of the "OMCD" series of local music compilations for OnMilwaukee.com and in 2007 produced a CD of Italian music and poetry.
In 2005, he was awarded the City of Asti's (Italy) Journalism Prize for his work focusing on that area. He has also won awards from the Milwaukee Press Club.
He has be heard on 88Nine Radio Milwaukee talking about his "Urban Spelunking" series of stories, in that station's most popular podcast.
