Exhibitions
Nancy Ford Kone
Ada More with Kodak Camera, circa 1910
Gelatin Silver Print, Private Collection
PHOTOGRAPHIC PROCESSES FROM THE LAST 150 YEARS
April 16 - May 22, 2010
Since its invention more than 150 years ago, photography has introduced a countless variety of processes from daguerreotypes to albumen prints to gelatin silver prints. This exhibition aims to display and explain many of these painstaking approaches that used to capture our surroundings. From anonymous portraits in the 1850s to the more well-known work of Ansel Adams, Berenice Abbott and Robert Rauschenberg, the Academy Art Museum will draw from its own collection and from private collections from the Eastern Shore and the District of Columbia. In addition to presenting a variety of aesthetic approaches, this exhibition aims to uncover the mechanical processes to inspire the “click and shoot” generations of photographers. In addition to the display of photographs, the installation will include several vintage cameras.
This exhibition is curated by Marie Martin, Appraiser, 19th and 20th Century and Contemporary Photography; Will Stapp, former photography curator of the National Portrait Gallery; and Brian Young, curator, Academy Art Museum.