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Merry Alpern (born in New York in 1955) is an American photographer that has been shown in museums and exhibitions around the country including the Whitney Museum of American Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Modern Art, National Museum of Women in the Arts and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Her most notable work is her 1993-94 series Dirty Windows, a controversial series in which she took photos of an illegal sex club through a bathroom window in Manhattan near Wall Street[1]. In 1994, the National Endowment for the Arts rejected recommended photography fellowships to Alpern, as well as Barbara DeGenevieve and Andres Serrano[2][3]. Merry Alpern became one of many artists assaulted by congressional conservatives trying to defund the National Endowment for the Arts[4] because of this series. As a result museums such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York and San Fransisco rushed to exhibit the series[5].
She later produced and exhibited another show called Shopping which included images from hidden video cameras[6].
Works[edit]
A.J. and Jim Bob, 1987-88.
Dirty Windows, 1993-94.
Shopping, 1999.
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External Links[edit]
Merry Alpern, Museum of Modern Art.
Merry Alpern's Hidden Camera, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, 2011.
Public, Private, Secret Exhibiton; International Center of Photography Museum.
- ^ Anthes, Bill (2011). Reframing Photography: Theory and Practice. Routledge. p. 41. ISBN 978-0-203-84759-6.
- ^ Ault, Julie (1999). Art Matters: How the Culture Wars Changed America. NYU Press. ISBN 9780814793510.
- ^ Schemo, Diana Jean (November 3, 1994). "Endowment Ends Program Helping Individual Artists". The New York Times. Retrieved February 21, 2017.
- ^ Knight, Christopher (January 8, 1995). "THE NATION / THE CULTURE WARS : A Day in the Death of the NEA: Did Agency's Success Cause Its Demise?". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved February 20, 2017.
- ^ Goldberg, Vicki (October 29, 1995). "PHOTOGRAPHY VIEW;Testing the Limits In a Culture of Excess". The New York Times. Retrieved February 21, 2017.
- ^ Jones, Jana Henleben (2012–13). "The Art of Sincerity" (PDF). Academic Forum. 30: 30.