BROOKLYN narrowed the gender gap with shows of the sculptures of Beverly Buchanan and
the beyond Photo Realism paintings of Marilyn Minter, whose work signals that the art of the 1980s is due for an overhaul.
A leading documentary photographer who was active in the New York
Photo League in the 1930s, Siskind moved
beyond the social
realism of his early work as he increasingly came to view photography as a visual language of signs, metaphors, and symbols — the equivalent of poetry and music.