This exhibition will feature work ranging from Penner Bancroft's For Dennis and Susan: Running Arms to a Civil War (1978), a powerful body of
early photographs depicting the impact of leukemia on Penner Bancroft's sister and brother in law, to works from the 1980s and 90s that examine the representation of the family and the cultural frameworks through which landscape is perceived.
Dan shared with
us an early photograph depicting a row of young women in training for new roles at ETC — certainly a novel image at the time.
Not exact matches
The yellowing
photographs on the walls of the Burns Archive
depict the horrors and marvels of medicine at the turn of the 20th century:
early demonstrations of breast surgery, one of the first dental drillings, a pile of feet amputated from Civil War soldiers, and the ballooning legs of a teenager with elephantiasis.
A much - anticipated look at one of the first feminist artists, best known for her iconic landscape
photographs made in the
early 1900s
depicting female nudes outdoors in rugged Northern California.This monumental...
By contrast, Garry Winogrand's pastoral
photographs from the late 1960s and
early 1970s
depict a lake shoreline and figures in leisurely repose that emphasize static scenes.
The
photographs depict the artist Cy Twombly (1928 — 2011) descending the steps of the Basilica di Santa Maria in Aracoeli, a thirteenth - century church on Rome's Campidoglio, or Capitoline Hill, one of the most historic sites in the city (fig. 2).1 The images in Cy + Roman Steps (I — V) were most likely taken within the first few days of Rauschenberg and Twombly's arrival in Rome in
early September 1952.
Unlike the famed Stieglitz
photograph Spiritual America, which
depicts a domesticated horse as an
early commentary on similar themes that Prince explores, this horse evades the domesticating hand of the cowboy.
True to the effect of Neff's
earlier installations, A Prologue proffers an uncanny phenomenon of viewing: the main gallery acts as a literal reflection of itself — a section of wall is mirrored in a photomural across the room, while other
photographs depict Neff's poetic images posed here in the gallery space or in her Philadelphia studio.
Each
photograph in the series
depicts the chronological progression of the artist's relationship with the Doll and its increasing familiarity - the
earlier photos show the lifelike latex doll in formal poses while the most recent represent the subject engaging in seemingly personal thoughts and actions.
The
photographs, which were originally captured in the
early «90s and were first exhibited at the 1994 Havana Bienal,
depict the boxers at the academy while focusing on the pervading transcendental atmosphere of the space rather than the individual subjects.
Based on
early 20th century images found in the Library of Congress archive — a long - favored resource by Oppenheim — the
photographs depict the backs of textile workers taken by documentary photographer and sociologist Lewis Hine.
Earlier this month, a 2010 series of Polidori's
photographs depicting the interior of the Convento di San Marco in Florence went on display at Paul Kasmin Gallery in New York, allowing audiences the chance to enjoy the full power of the image - maker's large - scale works in person.