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Depression Era Photos * Atlanta High Museum

Depression Era Photos * Atlanta High Museum
“Signs of Life: Photographs by Peter Sekaer“ Exhibit highlights 87 images taken between 1935 -1945.  Referred to as a “photo-documentary” artist, American born Sekaer, 1901-1950, focused on people as they endured the  Great Depression in several American cities. “As I see it, the...

Progeny: Deborah Willis and Hank Willis Thomas

Progeny: Deborah Willis and Hank Willis Thomas
The distinction we make about race must be some primal system that forgot to grow up. We’ve all heard ourselves at one time or another claim to be color blind and mean it and be both surprised and ashamed of our private thoughts about people who are not like us. In the last two years we’ve...

Seattle Art Museum * Imogen Cunningham

Seattle Art Museum * Imogen Cunningham
New at SAM / Seattle Museum of Art*: “Everything Under the Sun: Photographs by Imogen Cunningham “ – until 8/29/10   “Imogen Cunningham (1883–1976) was one of the most well-known photographers from the Northwest. Working at a time when women photographers were few, Cunningham dedicated...

“Avedon Fashion” at MoFA, Boston

“Avedon Fashion” at MoFA, Boston
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston presents an exhibit featuring the fashion photography of Richard Avedon. Avedon was born in NYC 1923, he began work in 1944 at a department store, but quickly became the go-to photographer for magazines like Vogue, Look, Harpers Bazaar, etc. “Richard Avedon was one...

Women and Their Photographs

Women and Their Photographs
“Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography” at MoMA “For much of photography’s 170-year history, women have expanded its roles by experimenting with every aspect of the medium. Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography presents a selection of outstanding photographs by women...

Photography as Art Form – SF MOMA

Photography as Art Form – SF MOMA
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has always supported the idea of Photography as art. “SFMOMA was one of the first museums in the country to treat photography as an equal to painting and sculpture. In celebration of the museum’s 75 years of engagement with the medium, this exhibition explores...

ICP – Civil Rights Images

ICP – Civil Rights Images
Until September, the International Center of Photography in NYC presents: “For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights” With over 200 photographs, film and TV clips displayed, this program “explores the historic role of visual culture in shaping, influencing, and...

Media as Witness – Civil Rights

Media as Witness – Civil Rights
For all the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights an exhibit of photograph at the International Center of Where Every Boy Can Dream of Being President-National Museum of American History, Behring Center, Smithsonian Institution Photography, New York. The 1950′s, 1960′s...

Detroit Disassembled and Decomposed

Detroit Disassembled and Decomposed
It is sobering to know that nothing ever lasts or at least in the same form. The photographs of Detroit by Andrew Moore are witness to a dying city and culture. Both music and cars have moved on to some other pasture, leaving crumbling buildings and people who have no where to go. There are movies being...

Ansel Adams * Phoenix Art Museum

Ansel Adams * Phoenix Art Museum
120 photographs from the Center for Creative Photography’s “Ansel Adams Archive” will be on display at the Phoenix Art Museum until June 6, 2010. Included in the exhibition are “dozens of archival documents including video footage, original correspondence, photographic equipment, proof prints,...

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