Mark Sawyer
1-Feb-2008, 11:57
At the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson Arizona. I think this will be of interest to more than a few people on this board. Maybe a few will be in town for the lecture, exhibition, or both...
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Center for Creative Photography
Opening Reception and Lecture: Innovation in Pictorialism and Modernism: Anne Brigman, Imogen Cunningham, Alma Lavenson
Friday, February 15, Auditorium
Reception at 5 p.m., lecture at 6 p.m.
Susan Ehrens, noted author, curator, and photography historian, will look at three California women photographers who created significant and unique bodies of work. Assessing their contributions to Pictorialist and Modernist traditions in photography, Ehrens will also examine their relationships to each other and to other members of Group f/64.
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Exhibition: Debating Modern Photography: The Triumph of Group f/64
February 16–May 4, 2008
Debating Modern Photography presents the lively artistic debate that gripped California photographers in the 1930s.
On one side is the Modernist work of Group f/64: powerful images by photographers whose reputations are now established, such as Ansel Adams and Edward Weston.
The other, representing the more popular approach of the time, includes the soft-focus Pictorialist photographs of artists less well-known today, such as Johan Hagemeyer, William Mortensen, and Anne Brigman.
Although the sharp-focus aesthetic of Group f/64 ultimately became the prevailing art-photography style for much of the 20th century, this exhibition returns to the moment when this triumph was not yet assured.
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Center for Creative Photography
Opening Reception and Lecture: Innovation in Pictorialism and Modernism: Anne Brigman, Imogen Cunningham, Alma Lavenson
Friday, February 15, Auditorium
Reception at 5 p.m., lecture at 6 p.m.
Susan Ehrens, noted author, curator, and photography historian, will look at three California women photographers who created significant and unique bodies of work. Assessing their contributions to Pictorialist and Modernist traditions in photography, Ehrens will also examine their relationships to each other and to other members of Group f/64.
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Exhibition: Debating Modern Photography: The Triumph of Group f/64
February 16–May 4, 2008
Debating Modern Photography presents the lively artistic debate that gripped California photographers in the 1930s.
On one side is the Modernist work of Group f/64: powerful images by photographers whose reputations are now established, such as Ansel Adams and Edward Weston.
The other, representing the more popular approach of the time, includes the soft-focus Pictorialist photographs of artists less well-known today, such as Johan Hagemeyer, William Mortensen, and Anne Brigman.
Although the sharp-focus aesthetic of Group f/64 ultimately became the prevailing art-photography style for much of the 20th century, this exhibition returns to the moment when this triumph was not yet assured.