At a time when the distinction between photographer and artist has truly been erased, the Modern collects photography with the same boldness that has characterized the Museum's acquisitions in painting and sculpture, seeking out the finest international examples of work being made today. Once thought of as simply an artifact of life, a simple document of the real, it is now a fact of art. One of photography's great strengths today, of course, is its ability to play both ends against the middle, documenting life while it unveils new meanings for it. The artists featured in Ordinary Grandeur are less interested in discovering an exotic new image than in finding meaningful mystery in the familiar. Their various strategies of isolating, magnifying, staging and classifying this 'evidence' of the everyday is the subject of Ordinary Grandeur .
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The Modern is wheelchair accessible. Tours are provided for groups of ten to sixty persons and last approximately one hour. Groups with special needs are welcome. Please call at least two weeks in advance so a tour can be tailored for your group. There is no charge for museum tours.