Grand Rapids Art Museum

Selections from the Museum Photography Collection

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January 15 - September 5, 2010

Including over forty photographs from the Museum Collection, this exhibition will explore the historical scope and artistic range of photography by master photographers such as Ansel Adams, Edward Steichen, Walker Evans, Yousef Karsh and Gordon Parks. Documentary photographs, landscapes, cityscapes, portraiture, and social commentary are genres represented.

Film and Lecture Series

Sunday 2:00 pm


FILM

Sunday, March 28, 2:00 pm
The Wizard of Photography:
The Story of George Eastman

a film by James A. Devinney
(60 minutes)

FILM

Sunday, April 4, 2:00 pm
Ansel Adams
a film by Ric Burns
(100 minutes)

FILM

Sunday, April 11, 2:00 pm
Henri Cartier-Bresson:
The Impassioned Eye

a film by Heinz Bütler
(72 mintues)

LECTURE

Sunday, April 18, 2:00 pm
Places of Grace:
American Landscape Photography

Richard Axsom,
Senior Curator

FILM

Sunday, April 18, 2:00 pm
William Eggleston
In the Real World

directed by Michael Almereyda

(84 minutes)

FILM

Sunday, April 25, 2:00 pm
Berenice Abbott:
A View of the 20th Century

a film by Kay Weaver
and Martha Wheelock
(56 minutes)

Yousef Karsh
Canadian (born in Turkey), 1908-2002
Portrait of Georgia O'Keeffe,1956
Gelatin silver print
Gift of the Artist


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