Shutterbug buffs have a busy month ahead of them, with three diverse exhibits sure to help build a sense of camera-derie. Two are, more or less, single-artist retrospectives. At the MIA, it’s a look at the 22-year career of Swiss photojournalist Bischof, one of the leading lights of the Magnum agency. Best known for documenting shattered postwar Europe and famine-struck India, he was in the midst of a massive South American tour when his car fell off a mountain road in the Andes. Over at Icebox, a loosely organized show of several decades of Sid Kaplan’s work provides an excellent excuse to check out the new gallery space in the Northrup King complex. Kaplan will be in town to introduce the show October 9; he’s got 50 years’ worth of stories about working with the greats of the New York scene, so mark your calendar. But the big development is the Walker’s aptly titled Last Picture Show, running until the building closes for a year in February. With nearly five dozen artists on display, this ambitious exhibit takes as its subject nothing less than the changing meaning of photography itself as an art form. It looks like a superb show; a year without the Walker sounds very long indeed.
MIA, 2400 Third Ave. S., (612) 870-3131, www.artsmia.org
Icebox, 1500 Jackson St. N.E. #443, (612) 788-1790, www.iceboxminnesota.com
Walker, 725 Vineland Pl., (612) 375-7622, www.walkerart.org
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