landscape and traveled to England, France, and
Italy adding more images to his landscape series,
demonstrating the influence of Euge`ne Atget and
Edward Weston.
In 1997, Josephson retired from The School of
the Art Institute of Chicago, where he taught for 37
years and influenced generations of photographers.
He has exhibited widely in the United States and
abroad, and his work is included in collections
throughout the United States, Canada, Sweden,
and France.
ChristianGerstheimerSeealso:Artists’ Books; Atget, Euge`ne; Callahan,
Harry; Cartier-Bresson, Henri; Conceptual Photo-
graphy; Institute of Design; Long, Richard; Moholy-
Nagy, La ́szlo ́; Museum of Modern Art; Newhall,
Beaumont; Siskind, Aaron; Weston, Edward;
White, Minor; Winogrand, Garry
Biography
Born in Detroit, Michigan, July 1, 1932. Attended Rochester
Institute of Technology, 1951–53 and 1955–57; drafted
into United States Army and stationed in Germany,
1953–1955: attended Institute of Design, Illinois Institute
of Technology, 1958–1960; founding member Society for
Photographic Education, 1962, first professor of photo-
graphy at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago,
1960–1997; Visiting Professor, University of Hawaii, Hon-
olulu, 1967; John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellow-
ship, 1972, Visiting Professor, Tyler School of Art,
Philadelphia, 1975; National Endowment for the Arts
Grant, 1975 and 1979; Visiting Professor, University of
California, Los Angeles, Fall 1981-Spring 1982; Rutten-
berg Arts Foundation Grant, Chicago, 1983; Lives in
Chicago, Illinois.
Individual Exhibitions
1966 Konstfackskolan, Stockholm
1971 Art Institute of Chicago and New York Visual Studies
Workshop, Rochester and traveling
1974 University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City
291 Gallery, Milan College of Marin Art Gallery,
Kentfield, California
1976 Cameraworks Gallery, Los Angeles
Galerie der Bruecke, Vienna
1977 Gallery II, Perdue University, Lafayette, Indiana
Reicher Gallery, Barat College, Lake Forest, Indiana
1978 Kenneth Josephson: The Illusion of the Picture, Foto-
forum der Gesamthochschule, Kassel, Federal Republic
of Germany
1979 Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, England
Photographers’ Gallery, London
P.P.S. Galerie, Hamburg, Germany
1981 Delpire Gallerie, Paris
Young Hoffman Gallery, Chicago
1982 Orange Coast College Photography Gallery, Costa
Mesa, California
1983 Vision Gallery, Boston
Swen Parson University, Northern Illinois University,
Dekalb, Illinois
Kenneth Josephson, The Museum of Contemporary
Art, Chicago, Illinois
1984 The Friends of Photography, Carmel, California
Baker Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
1991 Kenneth Josephson, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago,
Illinois
1996 Kenneth Josephson, Ecole Regionale des Beaux-Arts de
Saint-Entienne, France
1999 Kenneth Josephson: A Retrospective, Art Institute of
Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Whitney Museum of Amer-
ican Art, New York.
2001 Kenneth Josephson Photographs, Yancey Richardson
Gallery, New York
Land/Cityscapes, Allen Priebe Gallery, University of
Wisconsin, Oshkosh, WisconsinGroup Exhibitions
1958 The Face of America, U.S. State Department, traveling
1961 Venice Biennale, Italy
1962 Three Photographers, George Eastman House, Roche-
ster, New York
1964 The Photographer’s Eye, Museum of Modern Art,
New York and traveling 1965
1967 The Portrait in Photography: 1848–1966, Fogg Art
Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachu-
setts
1970 The Universal Eye, Eastman Kodak Pavilion, Expo
‘70, Osaka, Japan and
Unique/Multiple: Sculpture/Photographs,Museumof
Modern Art, NewYork
Contemporanea, Parcheggio di Villa Borghese, Rome
1974 Ken Josephson, Bernard Plossu, Charles Spink, Sunset
Center, Carmel, California
20 thCentury American Photography, Nelson-Atkins
Art Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
1975 For You, Aaron, Photographs by Four Former Students
of Aaron Siskind: Jachna, Josephson, Metzker, Sterling
and Swedlund, The Renaissance Society at the University
of Chicago
1976 Photo/Synthesis, The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of
Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y.
1977 The Great West, Real/Ideal, University of Colorado,
Boulder and traveling
The Photographer and the City, Museum of Contem-
porary Art, Chicago
Malerei und Photographie im Dialog von 1840 bis
Heute, Kunsthaus, Zurich
The Target Collection of American Photography, Mu-
seum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
1978 Portfolios by Twelve Artists, Vienna Secession, Vienna,
Austria.
Mirrors and Windows: American Photography since
1960 , Museum of Modern Art, New York and traveling
Tusen och en bild, Moderna Museet, Fotografiska
Museet, Stockholm
Photography as Art, Visual Studies Workshop, Roche-
ster, New York
1979 American Photographs of the Seventies, Art Institute of
Chicago, Illinois
1980 The New Vision: Forty Years of Photography at the
Institute of Design, Light Gallery, New York, New York
Nude: Theory, Gallerie Fiolet, AmsterdamJOSEPHSON, KENNETH