Photography and Discovery @ Clark Art Institute

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Photography and Discovery @ Clark Art Institute

October 29th, 2016 by fstop

Francis Frith (English, 1822–1898), The Pyramids of El‑Geezeh, from the southwest, from Egypt, Sinai and Jerusalem: A Series of Twenty Photographic Views, c. 1860. Albumen print. Clark Art Institute, 1998.42.3.12

Photography and Discovery
November 12, 2016 – February 5, 2017

When photographs were first widely produced and distributed during the second half of the nineteenth century, they offered viewers new ways to discover unknown people, places, and things. Photography and Discovery, on view at the Clark Art Institute November 12, 2016–February 5, 2017, explores how photographers considered these subjects during the medium’s first seventy-five years. The exhibition—the first presented in the Eugene V. Thaw Gallery for Works on Paper in the newly renovated Manton Research Center—is the first extensive presentation of the Clark’s growing collection of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century photography.

On view are approximately forty-five works by American and European artists including Francis Frith (English, 1822–1898), Gertrude Käsebier (American, 1852–1934), Heinrich Kühn (Austrian, 1866–1944), Gustave Le Gray (French, 1820–1884), Charles Nègre (French, 1820–1880), William Henry Fox Talbot (English, 1800–1877), and Linnaeus Tripe (English, 1822–1902). The exhibition also includes works on loan from the Troob Family Foundation and selections from the Clark’s David A. Hanson Collection of the History of Photomechanical Reproduction.

Clark Art Institute – Eugene V. Thaw Gallery for Works on Paper,
225 South Street, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Location: United States, Williamstown Type: Exhibition

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