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Talks

Van Deren Coke: Collecting 20th-Century Photography

Friday, Apr 29, 2005

Noon

Participants

Erin Garcia, curatorial associate, photography, SFMOMA

The current installation of Picturing Modernity highlights photographs amassed during Coke’s eight-year tenure as SFMOMA’s director of photography (1979–87). Garcia examines selected photographs illustrating Coke’s interests in Surrealism, photographic experimentation, and the emerging artists of his day.