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23/9/2007

Two exhibitions

Metropolitan Museum of Art - MET, New York

Depth of Field: Modern Photography at the Metropolitan + Impressed by Light: British Photographs from Paper Negatives, 1840 - 1860.

Depth of Field: Modern Photography at the Metropolitan

Joyce and Robert Menschel Hall for Modern Photography, 2nd floor
The inaugural installation in The Joyce and Robert Menschel Hall for Modern Photography, Depth of Field: Modern Photography at the Metropolitan traces the medium’s varied paths from its role in conceptual, earth, and performance art of the 1960s to a central place in today’s contemporary art scene. Included are works by Bernd and Hilla Becher, Rodney Graham, Sharon Lockhart, Sigmar Polke, Thomas Ruff, Cindy Sherman, Thomas Struth, and Wolfgang Tillmans, among others.

The Joyce and Robert Menschel Hall for Modern Photography is the Metropolitan’s first gallery designed specifically for and devoted exclusively to the display of photographs created since 1960. Situated adjacent to the special exhibition galleries for drawings, prints, and photographs and the portion of the Robert Wood Johnson, Jr. Gallery where the earlier history of photography is displayed, the Menschel Hall allows the Department of Photographs to show its contemporary holdings within the broader context of photographic traditions and in an exhibition space with appropriate scale and detail. Installations drawn from the Department’s growing permanent collection will change every six months.

Impressed by Light: British Photographs from Paper Negatives, 1840 - 1860.

Galleries for Drawings, Prints and Photographs and The Howard Gilman Galleries.This exhibition is the first to explore the opening decades of paper photography in the country of its birth, focusing exclusively on photographs printed from negatives of fine writing paper. This early process—replaced almost entirely by glass negatives by 1860—was favored especially by men of learning and leisure who not only accepted but appreciated the medium’s tendency to soften details and mass light and shadow in a self-consciously artistic way. At home, their most frequent subjects—ancient oaks, rocky landscapes, ruined castles and abbeys, gatherings of friends and family—provided an antidote to the ills of modern, industrialized society; abroad, they were drawn to the glories of past civilizations manifest in Roman ruins, medieval churches, or Indian temples. Nearly 120 works by 40 artists have been assembled from 27 private and public collections; most are being exhibited in the United States for the first time.

The exhibition is made possible by The Hite Foundation.
The catalogue is made possible by Howard Stein.
Additional support is provided by the Mary C. and James W. Fosburgh Publications Fund and the Roswell L. Gilpatric Publications Fund.
The catalogue is published with the assistance of The Getty Foundation.
The exhibition was organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington.

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