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The
Pomona College Museum of Art Presents “Wide Angle:
Recent Photography Acquisitions"
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The Pomona College Museum of Art presents “Wide Angle:
Recent Photography Acquisitions,” a range of 300 photographs
acquired by Pomona College since 2004 that parallels the
range of the medium itself.
The exhibition will be on view November 5 through December
17, 2006. An opening reception will be held at the Museum
from 5-7 p.m. on Sunday, November 5. A performance at 4 p.m.
in Lyon Garden by the Pomona College Jazz Ensemble, under
the direction of Bobby Bradford, precedes the opening. Both
events are free and open to the public.
The collection includes nineteenth-century portraiture and
World War II photo-journalism; New York street photography
and European pictorialism; Modernism and post-modern
inventions. Featured are works by Joel-Peter Witkin, Aaron
Siskind, Robert Capa, Gustave Le Gray, and Garry Winogrand,
among others.
Joel-Peter Witkin’s “Fictional Store Fronts: Camera Store
Window” (2004), a meditation on the range of photographic
practice, introduces the exhibition. The photographs in the
exhibition speak to the protean and multi-faceted quality of
photography as a medium—its use in commercial studio
practice, for forms of documentation and reportage, for
aesthetic expression, and for personal memoir.
Portraiture has been a mainstay of photography since its
inception. The Museum is pleased to present a group of
portraits by the nineteenth-century photographer Gustave Le
Gray.
Photo-journalism is represented by Robert Capa’s photographs
of the 1949 Israeli War and Soviet photographer Markov-Grinberg’s
records of the Soviet Union during and immediately after the
Second World War.
A selection of work from Eastern European photographers
reveals the changing artistic styles and concerns. The
rhythms of the street and life in late twentieth century
America are the subjects plumbed by Aaron Siskind, Larry
Fink, and Garry Winogrand.
The exhibition also offers a chance to appreciate the work
of under-recognized mid-century masters, Leon Levinstein,
Jan Laushmann, and Cas Oorthuys. Contemporary photographer
Patrick Nagatani offers constructed tableaux of New Mexico’s
nuclear history. The work presented in this exhibition spans
the practice of photography from the early Scots partnership
of Hill and Adamson (1842) to work by Robert Stivers (2000).
The Pomona College Museum of Art is located at 330 N.
College Avenue, Claremont. The museum is open to the public,
free of charge, Tuesday through Friday, from noon to 5 p.m.,
and Saturday and Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m. For more
information, call (909) 621-8283 or visit www.pomona.edu/museum.
The Pomona College Museum of Art collects, preserves,
exhibits, and interprets works of art. The Museum houses a
substantial permanent collection as well as serving as a
gallery for the display of temporary exhibitions. Important
holdings include the Kress Collection of 15th- and
16th-century Italian panel paintings; more than 5,000
examples of Pre-Columbian to 20th-century American Indian
art and artifacts, including basketry, ceramics, and
beadwork; and a large collection of American and European
prints, drawings, and photographs, including works by
Francisco de Goya, José Clemente Orozco, and Rico Lebrun. |
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