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Maggie Sherwood and the Floating Foundation of Photography
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An overview of an innovative and influential arts organization of the 1970s and early 1980s.
In 1969, photographer Maggie Sherwood—whose circle included notables such as W. Eugene Smith, Lisette Model, Arthur Tress, Lilo Raymond, and David Vestal—bought and renovated a houseboat where she staged photography shows that received significant critical attention. Painted purple and moored at the 79th Street Boat Basin, the Floating Foundation of Photography, as it came to be known, was not only a unique space for artists to meet and discuss their work but also became a mobile exhibit space as it chugged (or was towed) to just about any community with a functional dock along the Hudson River. Taken together, the Foundation’s collection documents the historical, political, and aesthetic contexts of the turbulent 1970s and early 1980s, and this exhibition catalogue includes more than fifty photographs as well as essays by well-known photography critic A. D. Coleman and exhibition curator Beth E. Wilson, a writer and lecturer in the State University of New York at New Paltz’s art history department.
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