Invention and Continuity in Contemporary Photogra-
phy; Metropolitan Museum of Art; New York, New
York and traveling
The Photography of Invention: American Pictures of the
1980’s; National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian
Institution; Washington, D.C. and traveling
Wiener Diwan: Sigmund Freud Heute; Museum des 20.
Jahrhunderts; Vienna, Austria
Art at the End of the Social; The Rooseum; Malmo,
Sweden
Art of Our Time; Saatchi Collection; London, England
2 to Tango; International Center of Photography;
New York, New York
1990 To Be Or Not To Be; Centre d’Arte Santa Monica;
Barcelona, Spain
Recent Acquisitions; The Israel Museum; Jerusalem,
Israel
Images in Transition—Photographic Works of the 80’s;
National Museum of Modern Art; Kyoto and Tokyo,
Japan
Beyond the Photographic Frame; ATM Contemporary
Art Gallery; Mito, Japan
1991 Transparenz/Transzendenz; Ludwig Forum; Aachen,
Germany
Anninovanta; Gallerie Communale d’Arte Moderna;
Bologna, Italy
Boston Now: 10th Anniversary Exhibition; Institute of
Contemporary Art; Boston
Metropolis; Martin-Gropius-Bau; Berlin, Germany
1992 Regeneration: Hannah Collins, Mike and Doug Starn;
The Power Plant; Toronto, Canada
Allegories of Modernism; Museum of Modern Art;
New York, New York
1993 The Return of the Cadavre Exqui; The Drawing Cen-
ter; New York, New York
1994 Lessons in Life—Photographic Work from the Board-
room Collection; Art Institute of Chicago; Chicago, Illi-
nois
Myths and Mysticism; Gotlands Konst Museum;
Visby, Sweden
1996 Eternal Dialogue; Tower of David Museum; Jerusa-
lem, Israel
1997 The Luminous Image; The Alternative Museum; New
York, New York
1999 Mystique en Scene; Muse ́e Art Contemporain; Lyon,
FranceSelected Works
Burning Ants, 1990–1994
X, 1989–1990
Sphere of Influence, 1990–1992
Double Rembrandt with Steps, 1987–1991
Amaterasu, 1994Further Reading
Starn, Doug and Mike.The Christ Series (Projects 1).
Sarasota, Florida: The John and Mable Ringling
Museum of Art, 1987.
Davis, Keith.An American Century of Photography: From
Dry-Plate to Digital,2nded. Kansas City, Missouri:
Hallmark Cards, Inc., 1999.
Grundberg, Andy.Mike and Doug Starn. New York: Harry
N. Abrams, 1990.
———.Crisis of the Real: Writings on Photography Since
1974. New York: Aperture Foundation, Inc., 1999.
Haworth-Booth, Mark.Photography Now. London: Dirk
Nishen and The Victoria and Albert Museum, 1989.
Hirsch, Robert.Seizing the Light: A History of Photogra-
phy. Boston: McGraw Hill, 2000.
Mc Darrah, Fred W. and Gloria S. McDarrah.The Photo-
graphy Encyclopedia. New York: Schirmer Books, 1999.
Sandler, Irving.Art of the Postmodern Era: From the Late
1960’s to the Early 1990’s. Boulder, Colorado: Westview
Press, 1998.
Stoll, Diana C. ‘‘Doug and Mike Starn.’’Apertureno. 146,
(Winter 1997): 14–23.STEDELIJK MUSEUM
The Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum (Municipal Mu-
seum) was the first European museum of modern
art to develop a photography collection. Although
the Stedelijk exhibited photographs as early as
1908, 1958 should be considered the real starting
point for the museum’s photographic program. In
that year director Willem Sandberg took the initia-
tive to establish a photographic archive, which
blossomed over the years to become an internation-
ally renowned collection, which today consists of
over 8,000 pictures.
The Stedelijk Museum was founded by the city of
Amsterdam in 1895 as a part of the execution of the
will of Sophia Augusta de Bruyn, Douairie`re Jhr.
Lopez Suasso. The museum also incorporated the
collection of the Association for the Creation of a
Public Collection of Contemporary Art (VVOVHK),
which was founded a few years earlier. In the 1930sSTEDELIJK MUSEUM