PHOTOGRAPHIC
RESOURCE CENTER at boston university | 2002 members print program
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rodger kingston Born in Seattle, Washington in 1941 and raised in Montana, Rodger Kingston has lived for the past thirty years in Massachusetts. He has shown extensively throughout the United States, and his photographs are in numerous collections, including Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, the National Gallery of American Art, Harvard’s Fogg Art Museum, and Saatchi and Saatchi. Kingston turns his abstract lens on signs, trade marks, brand names, and logos, often within a context of vernacular architecture and urban spaces, to create his own visual dialect. An expert on Walker Evans, his most recent book is Walker Evans In Print: An Illustrated Bibliography, and his latest exhibition, Along the Right of Way: Landscapes from a Train by Rodger Kingston, is on display at the Fuller Muesum of Art, Brockton, MA, through September 8, 2002. His 1998 exhibition, Fifty Years on the Mangrove Coast: Photographs by Walker Evans and Rodger Kingston, recently finished a two year museum tour. Kingston also collects images by unknown photographers, building a case for a new vernacular history of photography. Three Penny Opera is regarded as one of his finest pieces. Kingston is on the Photographic Resource Center’s Board of Directors.
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