Hamilton College's Emerson Gallery, host to "Hamilton Collects Photography: The First 100 Years," is sponsoring an exhibition tour on Saturday, Oct. 18, at 2 p.m. Co-curators William E. Williams '73, professor of fine arts and curator of photography at Haverford College, and William Salzillo, Hamilton professor of art and curator of the "Hamilton Collects" series, will lead the tour. The gallery is also sponsoring two lectures on the history of the medium on October 21 and 28.
Laurie Dahlberg, associate professor and program chair of art history at Bard College, will present, "Vulgar Success: Conquests and Conflicts of Early Photography, " on Tuesday, Oct. 21, at 6 p.m. in the Chemistry Building auditorium.
Therese Mulligan, professor at the School of Photographic Arts at the Rochester Institute of Technology, will present, "Pictorialism into Modernism," on Tuesday, Oct. 28, at 6 p.m. in the Chemistry Building auditorium. Mulligan is the former curator at the George Eastman House.
The "Hamilton Collects" series focuses on current collecting trends in the Hamilton College community to illuminate the art of collecting and affirm the value of a liberal arts education in making judgments of quality. The next planned "Hamilton Collects" exhibition will focus on modern, post-1950 American art.
The current exhibition closes on November 23. The Emerson Gallery is located on the Hamilton College campus in Clinton, New York, in the Christian Johnson Hall directly behind the chapel. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and on Saturday and Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m. For information, call (315) 859-4396.
