Ackley C. Private Realities: Recent American Photography

Museum of Fine Arts, 1974. — 104 p.The title "Private Realities" was chosen to indicate that, although all of the works in this exhibition make use of objective camera realism, they are primarily concerned with the recording of subjective states of feeling. These works are not so much documentary as surreal, fantastic, autobiographical, profoundly personal. The photographers selected are only ten from among a great number of younger American photographers working in these directions in the last decade.Many of these images represent a conscious divergence from the purist and documentary traditions that crystallized in the 1920's and 30's and which emphasized direct, non-manipulative recording of the external world.