Photo collection captures transitional years for musicians such as Mike Murley, Lorne Lofsky, Neil Swainson, Rich Brown, Emilie-Claire Barlow and Dave Restivo.
PHOTO COURTESY GEORGE EASTMAN MUSEUM For much of his career, photographer Carl Chiarenza made collages from ripped paper and other bits of detritus and photographed them, resulting in quietly powerful abstract images such as the 1990 gelatin silver print, Untitled 280, seen here.
A lot has changed for photographer Carl Chiarenza since the 1950s, when as a teenager he was a valet parker at a new museum then called the George Eastman House. In those days, he spent time photographing places in and around Rochester, honing his talent and sharpening his eye for things that most people miss. All these years later, his life’s work in pictures is on display at the same institution where he once parked cars.
A Message from Aperture Foundation’s New Executive Director
Sarah Meister reflects on the role Aperture has played throughout her life and how photography brings us together, across continents and decades.
Sara Cwynar,
Today is my second First Day at a New Job, and I’m giddy with anticipation. My
first First Day was in September 1994, fresh out of college, when I walked into the Department of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art. We used typewriters on occasion, floppy disks at shared computers, no internet or email! John Szarkowski stopped by regularly, and people smoked in their offices. Every Thursday morning, the curatorial staff would gather to look at portfolios that photographers had dropped off and mailed in from all over the world. I couldn’t believe how fortunate I was to spend my days around amazing photographs and brilliant people. That feeling never waned and in my new role leading Aperture, I imagine it never will.
April 26 2021
Other items include New Avenues for Youth mural, The Laurelhurst Club, Ansel Adams exhibit and Lois Greenfield.
Adams photos on display
The Portland Art Museum has reopened and will present the exhibit, Ansel Adams in Our Time, to members starting Wednesday, April 28, and to the general public May 5.
The exhibit includes the famed photographer s work as well as others to put Adams photos in context.
The show contains 80 images by artists working both before and after Adams.
It was curated by Karen Haas of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She drew from her museum s Lane Collection of more than 6,000 American modernist photographs, works on paper and paintings, including 450 Adams photos collected by Saundra and William Lane.
Ansel Adams viewed through a wider lens
Portland Art Museum show adds contemporary context to famed photographer s legacy
The Portland Art Museum has reopened, and soon it will present an exhibit by one of the foremost American landscape photographers. Ansel Adams in Our Time, available to view by members April 28 and the public May 5, puts the photographer s work in context, showing what came before and what s going on now in relation the master s monolithic brand.
So, although his work is remembered as calendar-friendly shots such as Moon Over Half Dome (1960) and Jeffrey Pine Sentinel Dome, there s more to the Adams look than western crags, wild clouds and crisp shadows.