Clinton, N.Y. - Hamilton College's Emerson Gallery presents "Hamilton Collects Photography - The First One Hundred Years," a comprehensive historical survey of photography from the emergence of the daguerreotype in the 1840s to the height of the modern period during the first half of the 20th century. Opening on Monday, August 25, and closing on Sunday, Nov. 23, the exhibition includes works by many well known photographers among them Edward Steichen, Man Ray, Edward Weston, Alfred Steiglitz, Eadweard Muybridge, Thomas Eakins, Berenice Abbott, Eugene Atget and Ansel Adams.
Drawn from the collection of Hamilton alumni, parents, and friends, "Hamilton Collects Photography" includes approximately 130 photographs and provides an examination into issues of connoisseurship as well as a vision of photographic possibilities.
The show highlights a spectrum of styles, processes and movements including collodion (wet plate camera), cartes-de-visites, and stereoscopic views. Among the unique images included are the earliest paper photograph of Jerusalem, Muybridge pioneering motion studies, and Eakin's portrait of Walt Whitman.
The show will be divided into 12 sections beginning with the daguerreotypes of the 1840s and continuing with photography of the Civil War, early paper photography of the Holy Lands, images of the American West, early 20th century images of New York and Paris, portrait photography and experimental photography of the early modernists. Also included are many portraits of well known artists, politicians, and performers captured by equally famous photographers. Several of the images will be recognizable to many, like the Ansel Adams "Moonrise" or the Steichen "Flat Iron Building," but most included in this exhibition are unique in some way, whether by virtue of their provenance or the timing or process of their creation. (Noted photographs in the exhibit.)
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 first milestone exhibition (spring 2002), "Hamilton Collects American Art," told the story of American Art from colonial times to the mid-20th century. The next planned "Hamilton Collects" exhibition will focus on modern, post-1950 American art. This is the first photography exhibition of this scope and depth in the upstate region of New York.
The exhibition, which is free and open to the public, opens on August 25 and 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 AM to 5 PM and on Saturday and Sunday from 1 to 5 PM. For information, call (315) 859-4396. Hamilton College is a one-hour drive east of Syracuse and a four-hour drive northwest of New York City.
Drawn from the collection of Hamilton alumni, parents, and friends, "Hamilton Collects Photography" includes approximately 130 photographs and provides an examination into issues of connoisseurship as well as a vision of photographic possibilities.
The show highlights a spectrum of styles, processes and movements including collodion (wet plate camera), cartes-de-visites, and stereoscopic views. Among the unique images included are the earliest paper photograph of Jerusalem, Muybridge pioneering motion studies, and Eakin's portrait of Walt Whitman.
The show will be divided into 12 sections beginning with the daguerreotypes of the 1840s and continuing with photography of the Civil War, early paper photography of the Holy Lands, images of the American West, early 20th century images of New York and Paris, portrait photography and experimental photography of the early modernists. Also included are many portraits of well known artists, politicians, and performers captured by equally famous photographers. Several of the images will be recognizable to many, like the Ansel Adams "Moonrise" or the Steichen "Flat Iron Building," but most included in this exhibition are unique in some way, whether by virtue of their provenance or the timing or process of their creation. (Noted photographs in the exhibit.)
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The exhibition, which is free and open to the public, opens on August 25 and 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 AM to 5 PM and on Saturday and Sunday from 1 to 5 PM. For information, call (315) 859-4396. Hamilton College is a one-hour drive east of Syracuse and a four-hour drive northwest of New York City.
