In Light of the Past: Celebrating Twenty-Five Years of Photography at the National Gallery of Art
In Light of the Past: Celebrating Twenty-Five Years of Photography at the National Gallery of Art
(Sunday) — (Sunday)
Overview: Some 150 masterpieces will be featured from the National Gallery's photography collection, all acquired within the last quarter century. Highlighting exquisite nineteenth-century and turn-of-the-century pictorialist works; exceptional examples of international modernism of the 1920s and 1930s and seminal mid-twentieth-century American photography; as well as photographs exploring new directions in color and conceptual art in the 1970s and 1980s, the exhibition demonstrates the richness of the National Gallery’s photography collection and showcases the vitality of the medium as an art form from the its birth through the end of the twentieth century.
The curators of the exhibition are Sarah Greenough, senior curator and head of the department of photographs, and Diane Waggoner, associate curator, department of photographs, National Gallery of Art.
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In Light of the Past: Celebrating Twenty-Five Years of Photography at the National Gallery of ArtNational Gallery of Art Main address:
National Gallery of ArtWells Fargo Center4th and Constitution Avenue NWDC 20565Washington DC, United statesNational Gallery of ArtWells Fargo Center4th and Constitution Avenue NWDC 20565Washington DC, United statesOverview: Some 150 masterpieces will be featured from the National Gallery's photography collection, all acquired within the last quarter century. Highlighting exquisite nineteenth-century and turn-of-the-century pictorialist works; exceptional examples of international modernism of the 1920s and 1930s and seminal mid-twentieth-century American photography; as well as photographs exploring new directions in color and conceptual art in the 1970s and 1980s, the exhibition demonstrates the richness of the National Gallery’s photography collection and showcases the vitality of the medium as an art form from the its birth through the end of the twentieth century.
The curators of the exhibition are Sarah Greenough, senior curator and head of the department of photographs, and Diane Waggoner, associate curator, department of photographs, National Gallery of Art. Book tickets
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