(Julio, 1932, Detroit, Michigan)
Kenneth Josephson is an American photographer.
He completed his basic education in Detroit. In 1953, after being sent to Germany by the American army, he trained in “Photo-lithography” and aerial photographic reconnaissance. In 1957 he obtained a degree in Fine Arts from the Rochester Institute of Technology, located in New York where he also studied Minor White.
In 1960 he obtained a master’s degree from the Design Institute of the Illinois Institute of Technology. In his studies he had a lot of influence from Aaron Siskind and Harry Callahan.
After obtaining his master’s degree, he worked at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago from 1960 to 1997, the year in which he retired. In 1963 he co-founded with thirty other notable photographers of the Society for Photographic Education. His works in the 1960s and 1970s, which focused on conceptual photography, placed him at the forefront of conceptual photography. In 1972 he was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. In 1975 and in 1979 he was awarded the NEA scholarship by the National Fund for the Arts agency.
Many of its collections are found in museums, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, the National Museum of American Art and the National Library in Paris. In 1977 and 1983, many of his works became part of exhibitions in Austria, the United Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and France.
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