Chicago

Kenneth JosephsonWW-1964-105014

1964·Gelatin silver print·15.9 × 22.7 cm (6 5/16 × 8 15/16 in.)

<p>A faculty member in the photography department at the School of the Art Institute for more than 35 years, Kenneth Josephson started teaching there in the fall of 1960, shortly after receiving his master’s degree from the Institute of Design. He took to photographing the surrounding streets of Chicago’s Loop in his spare time. Attracted to the light during the afternoon hours when it cast sharp shadows, Josephson created what he called “little dramas” of passersby, like this one of a man walking in front of a Red Cross truck.</p>

Catalogue

Year: 1964
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: 15.9 × 22.7 cm (6 5/16 × 8 15/16 in.)
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Artist: Kenneth Josephson

Artist

Kenneth Josephson

Photography

Kenneth Josephson is an American photographer known for conceptual and formally rigorous work that treats the photograph itself as a sculptural or architectural object. Working primarily with black-and-white film since the 1960s, he explores the relationship between the camera's mechanical vision and human perception, often incorporating the frame edge, the photograph's materiality, or reflections within the image plane. His practice examines photography not as transparent documentation but as a constructed medium with its own spatial and temporal logic.

Detroit, MI, USA

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