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September Issue 2007
Columbia Museum of Art in Columbia, SC, Presents Photographic Masterworks
Dorothea Lange
Seeing Ourselves: Masterpieces of American Photography from the George Eastman House Collection opens at the Columbia Museum of Art in Columbia, SC, on Sept. 14, 2007, and runs through Jan. 6, 2008. This major exhibition of 155 masterworks illustrates the significance and power of photography in American life over the last 150 years. Coming from the nation's oldest and most comprehensive photography collection - the George Eastman House in Rochester, NY - the exhibition represents more than a century of excellence through historical and contemporary photographic masterpieces.
Benedict J. Fernandez
The show is divided into five subjects - each
section addressing key photographic works documenting the American
cultural experience: American Masterpieces with icons such
as The Steerage by Alfred Steiglitz, Nautilus by
Edward Weston and Yosemite Valley, Summer by Ansel Adams,
among others. American Faces represents celebrity and achievement
with images of iconic people like Robert F. Kennedy, Babe Ruth,
Igor Stravinsky and Robert Mapplethorpe, among others. Photographers
who have captured these American faces include Mathew Brady, Richard
Avedon, Alfred Stieglitz, Dorothea Lange, Edward Steichen, Mary
Ellen Mark and Gordon Parks.
Lewis W. Hine
America at War starts with Lincoln at the Battle of Antietam and continues to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall. America The Beautiful exemplifies the beauty and power of nature and an expanding America with gorgeous images that include works by Ansel Adams and Marilyn Bridges. American Families includes a variety of examples such as Tenement Penthouse by Weegee, Italian Family, Ellis Island by Lewis Hine and East Harlem by Helen Levitt.
Edward Weston
George Eastman House is the world's oldest photography museum, founded in 1947 on the estate of Kodak founder George Eastman, the father of popular photography. The museum has unparalleled collections of 400,000 photographs from 14,000 photographers dating from the beginnings of the medium; 16,000 items of camera technology; 26,000 motion picture titles and 5 million publicity stills and posters; and one of the world's most comprehensive libraries of photographic books, manuscripts and journals. In modern archives adjacent to the National Historic Landmark home, the museum offers world-leading graduate and post-graduate programs in photograph and film preservation and conservation.
Seeing Ourselves is part of the NEA's American Masterpieces: Three Centuries of Artistic Genius initiative - a multi-year grant program designed to connect Americans, especially school children, with the best of their artistic patrimony.
Seeing Ourselves: Masterpieces of American Photography from the George Eastman House Collection was organized by George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film and was made possible through a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts as part of the American Masterpieces program.
The Columbia presentation is sponsored by Fujifilm with additional support by Richland County; Vein Specialists of the South, LLC; South Carolina Parks, Recreation & Tourism; Alice Kasakoff and John Adams; Sonoco; Susan Thorpe and John Baynes; and Jenny and Jamie Walker.
In conjunction with this exhibition the Columbia Museum of Art is offering a number of related programs and events. Contact the Museum for further info about these events.
For further information check our SC Institutional
Gallery listings, call the Museum at 803/799-2810 or visit (www.columbiamuseum.org).
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