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1/20/2012 - 5/5/2012
Organizing institution: The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia
This two-part display presents a chronological survey of photographic highlights from the Museum's permanent holdings, with additional loans from a private collection. 100 Years of Photography considers a wide range of process and subjects, beginning with daguerreotypes and tintypes of the 1850s and proceeding through a century of photographic achievement. The photographic portrait, urban photography, landscape, social documentary, and art photography are among the genres and types on view. Featured photographers include Thomas Annan, Eugène Atget, Karl Blossfeld, Anne W. Brigman, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Frank Eugene, Walker Evans, Robert Frank, Florence Henri, Helen Levitt, Nadar, August Sander, W. Eugene Smith, and Alfred Stieglitz, among others. This display accompanies curator Matthew Affron's spring semester course, The History of Photography.
Curated by Matthew Affron, Curator of Modern Art & Academic Curator and Associate Professor, McIntire Department of Art
Organizing institution: The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia
This two-part display presents a chronological survey of photographic highlights from the Museum's permanent holdings, with additional loans from a private collection. 100 Years of Photography considers a wide range of process and subjects, beginning with daguerreotypes and tintypes of the 1850s and proceeding through a century of photographic achievement. The photographic portrait, urban photography, landscape, social documentary, and art photography are among the genres and types on view. Featured photographers include Thomas Annan, Eugène Atget, Karl Blossfeld, Anne W. Brigman, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Frank Eugene, Walker Evans, Robert Frank, Florence Henri, Helen Levitt, Nadar, August Sander, W. Eugene Smith, and Alfred Stieglitz, among others. This display accompanies curator Matthew Affron's spring semester course, The History of Photography.
Curated by Matthew Affron, Curator of Modern Art & Academic Curator and Associate Professor, McIntire Department of Art
Exhibition Objects (17)
Artists (11)
- Alfred Stieglitz (Hoboken, New Jersey, 1864 - 1946, New York, New York)
- Alice Boughton (1865 - 1943)
- American Artist
- Anne W. Brigman (Honolulu, Hawaii, 1869 - 1950, Eagle Rock, California)
- Clarence Hudson White (West Carlisle, Ohio, 1871 - 1925, Mexico City, Mexico)
- Edward Jean Steichen (Luxembourg, 1879 - 1973)
- Frank Eugene (New York, New York, 1865 - 1936, Munich, Germany)
- Frederick Henry Evans (London, England, 1853 - 1943, London, England)
- Gertrude Käsebier (Des Moines, Iowa, 1852 – 1934, New York)
- Nadar (Paris, France, 1820 - 1910, Paris, France)
- Thomas Annan (Dairsie, Scotland, 1829 - 1887, Scotland)