In the past, scores of black tie - clad and gown - wearing
guests have stopped at the foot of the steps of the cavernous main cinema, phones aloft, trying to capture the perfect
snapshot.
On view at the Phillips Collection through May 2012 and organized by Easton as
guest curator with the Van Gogh Museum's Edwin Becker, the Indianapolis Museum's Ellen W. Lee and Eliza Rathbone of the Phillips, «
Snapshot» presents 70 paintings, prints and drawings by seven Post-Impressionists who were part of the Parisian avant - garde Nabis group — including Pierre Bonnard, Maurice Denis, Felix Vallotton and Vuillard, as well as the lesser - known artists George Hendrik Breitner, Henri Evenepoel and Henri Riviere — alongside over 200 of their photos, all taken on Kodak's first handheld camera, which was invented
in 1888.