A Survey of American Photographs from SAMA Collection
Sublime Light: A Survey of American Photographs from the Permanent Collection
June 2, 2012 to August 19, 2012
Focus Gallery
Two Models with Sunshields, 1948
Gelatin silver print
Purchased with funds provided by the Hearst Foundation 77.232
Sublime Light: A Survey of American Photographs from the Permanent Collection gathers more than fifty masterful and iconic images from SAMA’s holdings of photography and strives to illustrate the breadth and vitality of the medium over the last one and one half centuries. Although the first fixed image was recorded in 1826, artists were exploring the possibilities of recording light-generated images as early as the Renaissance using an optical device called the camera obsura.
This exhibition features some of America’s most accomplished and celebrated photographers such as Berenice Abbott, Ansel Adams, Richard Avedon, Margaret Bourke-White, Imogen Cunningham, Elliot Elisofon, Dorothea Lange, Barbara Morgan, Irving Penn, Kay Bell Reynal, W. Eugene Smith, Edward Steichen, Paul Strand, George Tice, Edward Weston, Minor White and James Van Der Zee.
Into the 21st century and our information and ubiquitous image-rich digital age, SAMA’s collection continues to grow. Examples of digitally manipulated photographs or images exploring the use of new technologies are featured in works by David Halliday, Geoff Winningham, Juan Miguel Ramos & Maggie Taylor.
Focus Gallery
Two Models with Sunshields, 1948
Gelatin silver print
Purchased with funds provided by the Hearst Foundation 77.232
Sublime Light: A Survey of American Photographs from the Permanent Collection gathers more than fifty masterful and iconic images from SAMA’s holdings of photography and strives to illustrate the breadth and vitality of the medium over the last one and one half centuries. Although the first fixed image was recorded in 1826, artists were exploring the possibilities of recording light-generated images as early as the Renaissance using an optical device called the camera obsura.
This exhibition features some of America’s most accomplished and celebrated photographers such as Berenice Abbott, Ansel Adams, Richard Avedon, Margaret Bourke-White, Imogen Cunningham, Elliot Elisofon, Dorothea Lange, Barbara Morgan, Irving Penn, Kay Bell Reynal, W. Eugene Smith, Edward Steichen, Paul Strand, George Tice, Edward Weston, Minor White and James Van Der Zee.
Into the 21st century and our information and ubiquitous image-rich digital age, SAMA’s collection continues to grow. Examples of digitally manipulated photographs or images exploring the use of new technologies are featured in works by David Halliday, Geoff Winningham, Juan Miguel Ramos & Maggie Taylor.
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