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SFMOMA Presents World View of Five Distinctive Photographers in Face of Our Time

SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- From July 2 through October 16, 2011, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) presents Face of Our Time: Jim Goldberg, Daniel Schwartz, Zanele Muholi, Jacob Aue Sobol, Richard Misrach, an exhibition that features the work of five distinctive photographers who share an interest in making pictures that capture what the world looks like now. They describe poetic truths and complex, open-ended social realities within the context of current political events. The title of the exhibition refers to the book Face of Our Time, published in 1929 by August Sander, a major German photographer of the 1920s. His project was to convey his historical moment through the faces and comportments of his contemporaries, in order to reveal the character and culture of Germany before the Second World War erupted. Similarly, the photographers in this exhibition are aligned by their