Marcia Resnick (Brooklyn, born 1950) was one of the most ambitious and innovative American photographers of the 1970s. Combining social critique with poignant, often humorous performance, her photographs explore—in a conceptual vernacular—aesthetic, social, and political issues at once timely and timeless. A part of the now-mythic creative community in downtown New York, she created work that challenged traditional ideas about what a photograph could be. This exhibition brings together for the first time her extraordinary photographs from this period.

This exhibition was organized by the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, and the George Eastman Museum.

Learn more from the introduction to the exhibition catalogue, Marcia Resnick: As It Is or Could Be, reproduced by permission of Yale University Press. The catalogue is available from The Store at Mia.