Exhibition: Avenue: Pictures by Ann Kogen 11/6/2025: Northwestern Occasions Calendar

When:
Thursday, November 6, 2025
10:00 AM – 10:00 PM CT

Where:
Norris University Center, Dittmar Gallery , 1999 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208 map it

Audience:
Faculty/Staff – Student – Public – Post Docs/Docs – Graduate Students

Cost: Free to all

Contact:
Dittmar Gallery  

dittmargallery@u.northwestern.edu

Group:
Dittmar Memorial Gallery

Category:
Fine Arts

Description:

In the summer season of 1980, Ann Kogen purchased a Nikon FM digicam, some black and white Tri-X movie, and stepped into the world of images. Encouraged by her photographer buddy, she realized the strategies of images, studied photographers, and experimented with varied sorts of cameras. Photography offered a medium that may permit Ann to precise her lifelong curiosity about folks, tradition, and society. Drawn to the immediacy of road images, she started to doc the actions and variety of individuals on the road. Through her lens, she captured the sweetness, chaos, and nuances of on a regular basis life in public areas.

STREET takes viewers again in time by way of a collection of candid road images that seize diversified points of humanity and society within the early Nineteen Eighties. Striking black and white images showcase folks on the road, likelihood encounters, reflections from retailer home windows, graphic partitions, and signage. Captured on the streets of many cities from Chicago, Illinois, to Cairo, Egypt, the timeless high quality of the images evokes a way of widespread humanity, focusing the lens on the shared common qualities of people no matter their many variations. STREET supplies participating pictures that invite viewers to replicate on the methods images shapes our understanding of public areas and the tales embedded inside them.