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Matthew Harrison Tedford

Matthew Harrison Tedford is a writer and filmmaker living in San Francisco. He writes about contemporary art and film with a focus on historical memory and landscape. Matthew's writing appears in KQED, SF Weekly, Sculpture Nature, Art Practical, Daily Serving, and Mubi.com's Notebook. You can follow him on Instagram at @mhtedford.

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A 1960s Sustainable Community Outside San Francisco and Its Struggle to Survive

by Matthew Harrison Tedford January 24, 2019January 24, 2019

Designers wanted to create a community that was equitable, affordable, and open-minded. But over the years developers began courting wealthy weekenders, and today units sell at stratospheric prices.

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San Francisco’s New Transit Center Features Public Art by Jenny Holzer, Julie Chang, and Ned Kahn

by Matthew Harrison Tedford August 7, 2018

A new transit center filled with on-site public art opens in San Francisco.

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Walker Evans’s Eye on the City

by Matthew Harrison Tedford December 18, 2017December 15, 2017

While Walker Evans may be best known for his photographs from small towns across the US during the Great Depression, an exhibition at SFMOMA shows him also as a longtime New Yorker fascinated with the particulars of urban life.

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The Politics of Representing Landscapes

by Matthew Harrison Tedford December 15, 2017December 20, 2017

Unsettled, an exhibition at the Nevada Museum of Art, in Reno, explores how artists have interpreted the dramatic landscapes of the western edge of the American continents.

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Erotic Art at the Intersection of Queer and Chicanx Identities

by Matthew Harrison Tedford August 31, 2017

The works in Queerly Tèhuäntin | Cuir Us bring together a community’s wide-ranging self-representations, from macabre self-portraits to Chicana punk screenprints.

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The Museum of Capitalism Isn’t Buying Our Prevailing Economic Model

by Matthew Harrison Tedford July 3, 2017July 5, 2017

Museum of Capitalism, a pop-up exhibition in Oakland presenting itself as a fully functioning museum, attempts to shift our perspective and give viewers a bird’s-eye view of capitalism.

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The American Landscape Photographers Who Focused on the Environment in the ’70s

by Matthew Harrison Tedford June 28, 2017June 29, 2017

A desire to avoid romanticizing the landscape is fundamental to the shifts in landscape photography that occurred in the late 1960s and 1970s.

Diane Arbus, "Girl with a pointy hood and white schoolbag at the curb, N.Y.C." (1957) (courtesy The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; copyright © The Estate of Diane Arbus, LLC; all rights reserved)
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The Evolution of Diane Arbus in 35mm

by Matthew Harrison Tedford April 19, 2017April 18, 2017

The exhibition diane arbus: in the beginning gathers images the photographer shot between 1956 and 1962, when she started using the distinctive Rolleiflex camera with which she captured her most famous photos.

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