| Directory > Arts > Photography > Reference > Curated Virtual Exhibitions Museum of Modern Art Collection and Virtual Exhibitions
The Museum began to collect photographs in 1930 and established the Photography Department in 1940.
Site links to MoMA's virtual group and one-person exhibitions, including Rudy Burkhardt, Andreas
Gursky, Aleksandr Rodchenko, David Goldblatt, and Cindy Sherman.
http://www.moma.org/collection/depts/photography/index.html
Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
Whois Check
Secrets of the Dark Chamber: The Art of the American Daguerreotype
A virtual exhibition of photographs, contemporary interpretations and historical texts, and Real
Audio tours, from the photographic collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Exhibition
curated by Merry Foresta.
http://nmaa-ryder.si.edu/collections/exhibits/helios/darkchamber.html
Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
Whois Check
Between Home and Heaven: Contemporary American Landscape Photography
To reveal the truth within the landscape, photographers of the present day have had to find a way
to mediate between the sometimes harsh realities of contemporary life and the edenic traditions of
the genre -- between home and heaven. Featuring 90 works by 39 artists, along with illustrated
essays by Merry Foresta, Stephen Jay Gould, and Karal Ann Marling.
http://nmaa-ryder.si.edu/collections/exhibits/helios/homeandheaven.html
Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
Whois Check
American Photographs: The First Century
Presents a wide-ranging selection of photographs from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
collection, including Civil War images by George Barnard and the Mathew Brady Studio, spectacular
western landscapes by Timothy O'Sullivan and William Henry Jackson, as well as Pictorialist scenes
by Clarence White and Gertrude Kasebier, from approximately 1839 to 1939.
http://nmaa-ryder.si.edu/collections/exhibits/helios/amerphotos.html
Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
Whois Check
Urban Life Through Two Lenses
The exhibition represents multiple approaches to history, material culture and time. Photographs by
William Notman (1826-1891), re-visited and re-photographed by contemporary photographer Andrzej
Maciejewski, with separate historical, photographic, and museological commentary. McCord Museum of
Canadian History. [Flash and QuickTime required]
http://www.mccord-museum.qc.ca/scripts/global.php3?Lang=1&PageName=accueil.php
Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
Whois Check
Concerning the Spiritual in Photography
Approaching photography and photographer literally as a "medium," this exhibition
considers how historical and present-day practitioners utilize and reference intrinsic mechanics of
light-sensitive media to achieve spiritual allusions and illusions. Photographic Resource Center at
Boston University.
http://www.bu.edu/prc/spirit.htm
Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
Whois Check
Recollecting a Culture: Selections from the Fotokino Archive
Recollecting a Culture is a study of the political and economic pressures on the visual arts of the
German Democratic Republic (GDR). It draws from the Fotokino Archive, comprised of approximately
14,000 prints and several thousand negatives, which was accessioned by the Staatliche Galerie
Moritzburg Halle, Germany, following reunification. Photographic Resource Center at Boston
University.
http://www.bu.edu/prc/fotokino/index.htm
Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
Whois Check
Heavens Above
An online exhibit from the New York Public Library that compares the 19th-century chromolithographs
of astronomical observations made by artist/astronomer Etienne Trouvelot with comparable images
photographed by NASA as part of its space program.
http://www.nypl.org/research/sibl/trouvelot/
Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
Whois Check
1896 Washington Salon and Art Photographic Exhibition
Three prestigious Washington, D.C. organizations played a major role in the establishment and
acceptance of art photography in America. The Camera Club of the Capital Bicycle Club sponsored the
1896 Washington Salon and Art Photographic Exhibition. The Cosmos Club provided the exhibit space.
And fifty of the salon's images were purchased to expand the Smithsonian Institution's national
collection. National Museum of American History.
http://americanhistory.si.edu/1896/index.htm
Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
Whois Check
|
