Center for Visual Communication
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The Unending Stream, Clarence John Laughlin
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Clarence John Laughlin
Poet Photographer
Opening Reception
October 11, 2008 - 7 to 9pm
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Please mark you calendar for the opening reception of American Master Clarence John Laughlin from 7:00-9:00 pm on October 11 - Wynwood Second Saturday.
Center for Visual Communication celebrates the new film documentary and book on iconoclast artist Clarence John Laughlin (1905-1985) with the first major exhibition of his photographs in over 15 years.
The Eye that Never Sleeps, Clarence John Laughlin
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Clarence John Laughlin - A True American Master
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Laughlin, a photographer, poet, writer and bibliophile from New Orleans is considered the first American Surrealist. His body of work, over 17,000 images, is one of the largest and most original contributions to American art of the 20th Century.
The 60 prints on exhibit highlight the central theme that unites his vast output - his Third World of Photography, which advanced the medium past documentation and the purism championed by Weston's f-64 school. Laughlin was the subject of numerous museum exhibitions during his lifetime and is represented in most important museum collections here and abroad including MOMA and The Metropolitan Museum. 
He has been recently celebrated with a feature length documentary (soon to be released) by award winning filmmaker Michael Murphy and a biography by A.J. Meek, Clarence John Laughlin - Prophet Without Honor, University Press of Mississippi.
The Show will run from October 11th - November 21st, 2008
Center for Visual Communication is located in Wynwood at 541 NW 27th Street between Margulies Collection and MOCA Goldman.
For more information please contact Rosie Johnson.
We look forward to seeing you,
-Rosie
Solidity of Shadows and The Bat by Clarence John Laughlin
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Laughlin is represented in the following Collections:
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The Art Institute of Chicago
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum, New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Smithsonian Museum
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Smithsonian Museum, Washington DC
*All Images are ©Copyright Historic New Orleans Collection
The Masks Grow to Us, Clarence John Laughlin
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 Contact Information
Rosie Johnson
Phone: 305-571-1415
E-Mail: Rosie@visual.org
Center for Visual Communication
541 NW 27 St.
Miami, FL 33127
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