art2art Circulating Exhibitions

08/13/2024

The 8th photographer in our Photo-secession is Frederick H. Evans, an English photographer, known for his images of architectural subjects. He actually began his career as a bookseller, but retired from that to become a full-time photographer in 1898.

There are 27 different photographers in the show -- and we are featuring one a day as we count down to its opening at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts!

08/12/2024

Day 7 of our countdown til the Photo-Secession at Utah Museum of Fine Arts! Our next artist is Peter Henry Emerson, a British writer and photographer known for images of rural settings. His photographs are early examples of promoting straight photography as an art form -- and he argued with the photographic establishment about the purpose and meaning of the medium.

For more information about the , visit https://www.art2art.org/photo-secession.html

08/11/2024

The sixth artist in our Photo-Secession is Pierre Dubreuil, a French photographer and a pioneer of the medium.

We are counting down an artist a day til the show opens at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts!

08/10/2024

The fifth artist in our daily countdown to the Photo-secession show at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts is Arthur Wesley Dow, painter, print-maker and photographer. Dow is today best remembered as a pioneering arts educator with a 30-year teaching career at the Pratt Institute, the Art Students League and at Teacher’s College, Columbia. His ideas were a hybrid of and , as exemplified by this .

For more information about the , visit https://www.art2art.org/photo-secession.html

08/09/2024

Day 4 -- counting down til Photo-Secession opens at Utah Museum of Fine Arts! Let's spotlight . He was given a camera at a young age and then joined San Francisco’s avant-garde Camera Club. Dassonville supported himself by taking portraits but continued to make beautiful platinum prints of the California landscape in the pictorialist style. In the 1920s, he focused on San Francisco’s waterfront, skyline, and architecture, making impressionist images.

For more information about our , visit https://www.art2art.org/photo-secession.html

08/08/2024

Day three counting down to the Photo-Secession show at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts! Let's look at , a great photographic experimenter of his day and considered one of the forgotten heroes of early 20th century photography. Born in Boston in 1882, he became key figure in the development of , as well as abstract and modern photography. He was also the first major photographer to focus on elevated viewpoints, standing atop New York city skyscrapers to achieve his desired effect.

For more information about our , visit https://www.art2art.org/photo-secession.html

08/07/2024

The second artist in our countdown to the Photo-Secession show at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts is . Her photographs often featured the female n**e, dramatically situated in natural landscapes or trees.

For more information about our , visit https://www.art2art.org/photo-secession.html

08/06/2024

Over the weekend, our 44th president celebrated his birthday! Our features so many great moments with this great man. For more information about "Obama: An Intimate Portrait, Photographs by ," visit https://www.art2art.org/obama.html

08/06/2024

Did you know there are 27 incredible photographers featured in our Photo-Secession ? We're counting down the days to the show at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts! So let's feature a photographer a day while we wait . . . starting with , a major figure in the history of Dutch photography.

Berssenbrugge mastered virtually all of the photographic processes applied at the time and his work reflects the various painting styles of the first half of the twentieth century. Berssenbrugge was the best-known from the , participating in exhibitions around the world and receiving several awards.

For more information about our Photo-Secession traveling exhibit, visit https://www.art2art.org/photo-secession.html

08/06/2024

The upcoming exhibition Photo-Secession: Painterly Masterworks of Turn-of-the-Century Photography celebrates an intrepid group of photographers, led by Alfred Stieglitz, who fought to establish photography as fine art, coequal with painting and sculpture at the turn of the 20th century.

The Photo-Secession movement took cues from European modernists–who seceded from centuries-old academic traditions–to demonstrate photographic pictures' aesthetic, creative, and skillful value as art. An homage to Stieglitz, Photo-Secession includes some of the very images that established the appreciation of photography's artistic merits.

The UMFA will present this exhibition concurrently with Blue Grass, Green Skies: American Impressionism and Realism from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art to draw attention to the cyclical dialogue between painting and photography in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Learn more at https://umfa.utah.edu/photo-secession.

Collection of Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg

Exhibition organized by art2art Circulating Exhibitions.

Image Credit:
Gertrude Käsebier
American, 1852–1934
The Picture Book, 1903
Platinum print on paper

07/23/2024

is in full swing! As we consider who will be the next president, let's look at our "Obama: An Intimate Portrait" by White House photographer . For more information, visit https://www.art2art.org/obama.html

07/18/2024

Our "Disfarmer: The Vintage Prints" presents the vintage photographs of (1884-1959), one of America's greatest portraitists.

Disfarmer was born Mike Meyer in 1884. He legally changed his name to Disfarmer to disassociate himself from the farming community in which he plied his trade and from his own kinfolk—claiming that a tornado had accidentally blown him onto the Meyer family farm as a baby. Despite his quirks, as the resident studio photographer in tiny Heber Springs, , Disfarmer captured the faces of the American heartland at a defining period in history, as they struggled through the Depression and World War II.

For more information, visit https://www.art2art.org/disfarmer.html

07/16/2024

“I felt that the camera grew an extension of my eyes and moved with me,” photographer Ilse Bing said. Her work takes centerstage in our "Ilse Bing: Queen of the Leica." For more information, visit https://www.art2art.org/ilse-bing.html

07/15/2024

The New York Times reported yesterday that 3,500 wildfires have erupted in recent weeks across California, with 207,000 acres burned this year, more than 20 times last year.

This highlights the importance of our photographer 's Wildfire Project.
"Since 2011 I have been working daily on a long-term project, an anecdotal archive, functioning as memory, recording, encoding, and storing milestones of incremental climate change," he writes. For more information, visit
https://www.davidellingsen.com/WILDFIRE/Project-information/1/caption

07/14/2024

Happy !!! Let's take a moment to celebrate France! These are photos from our "French Twist" https://www.art2art.org/french-twist.html

07/11/2024

Our , "Bill Owens: Suburbia," we get to delve into the post-WWII housing boom, that brought people out of the city and into planned communities. But the themes that emerge are still relevant today. To learn more about the show, visit https://www.art2art.org/bill-owens-suburbia.html

07/08/2024

Heading to the beach this summer? Our Awkward Family Photos features these priceless seaside moments. For more inforamtion aout the show, visit our site https://www.art2art.org/awkward-family-photos.html

07/06/2024

It's Frida Kahlo's birthday!!! We are proud to offer an extraordinary "Frida Kahlo - An Intimate Portrait: The Photographic Albums," which features 113 intimate photographs from the artist's personal albums.

The photos in this exhibition were selected from a body of 450 objects belonging to The Vicente Wolf Collection and has been curated by V&S, Vicente Wolf and Sandrina Rubelli Interior Designers.
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The photos in this exhibition were taken by several high profile artists including , , Frida’s father , as well as by herself. Visit our site for more information https://www.art2art.org/frida-kahlo.html

07/05/2024

“It is part of the photographer’s job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him something of the receptiveness of the child who looks at the world for the first time or of the traveler who enters a strange country.” – Bill Brandt

Check out our "Bill Brandt: Shadows and Substance" https://www.art2art.org/bill-brandt.html

07/03/2024

Anne Brigman, a late 19th-century photographer combines images of wilderness and nature with the female figure, creating haunting poetry on film. Some see a feminist statement in her work, a desire for freedom. Others have remarked on the references to Daphne, the nymph Apollo pursued who escapes by being transformed into a tree. She is one of the artists featured in our "Photo-Secession: Painterly Masterworks of Turn-of-the-Century Photography"

For more information, visit https://www.art2art.org/photo-secession.html

07/02/2024

Our recently-expanded surveys the life’s work of Lewis Wickes Hine (1874-1940), the father of American . To learn more visit our site, https://www.art2art.org/lewis-hine.html

07/01/2024

In 1933, the acclaimed 33-year-old writer rented a 30-foot boat from a friend and embarked on a fishing expedition from Key West, Florida to Havana, Cuba. While there, he had a chance encounter with a young photographer Walker Evans, and the two became drinking buddies. Evans idolized Hemingway. He himself had wanted to be a writer, having dropped out of Williams College and moved to Paris to pursue a literary career. After immersing himself in both the visual and literary culture of Paris, Evans returned home and took up the camera in place of the pen.
Our "Walker Evans in Cuba: The Ernest Hemingway Collection" is a result of that serendipitous meeting. The 44 vintage photographs in this exhibition come from Hemingway’s personal collection.

06/27/2024

"A camera teaches you how to see without a camera," Dorthea Lange said. Any photos make you reconsider the way you look at the world?

We have a phenomenal with 100 , spanning her life work. Check out our website for more https://www.art2art.org/dorothea-lange.html

06/25/2024

With all the buzz about the film "The Bikeriders," let's look at another photo from the series that inspired it. In 1963, Lyon returned to Chicago, and, armed with a Nikon, a Rolleiflex, and a seven-pound portable tape recorder, became the in-house chronicler of a notorious motorcycle gang, the Chicago Outlaws.
Our includes 50 of the photographs, excerpts from interviews with the bikeriders as well as from Lyon 's own writings. For more information, visit https://www.art2art.org/danny-lyon-bikeriders.html

06/21/2024

About 60 years ago, rode with a . Now it's playing on the silver screen. Read this Los Angeles Times article about "The Bikeriders."

We're proud of also host the https://www.art2art.org/danny-lyon-bikeriders.html

"The Bikeriders" began as a book of photographs taken by an embedded Danny Lyon. Those images have inspired a film starring Austin Butler, Jodie Comer and Mike Feist.

06/20/2024

"It's hot under this costume. I am sweating the whole time I am out here. Every two hours I get a break and drink four Cokes and eat all the free fast food I want. The kids love the balloon animals I give away and sometimes I get extra work making them at kids' birthday parties."

The 72 photographs in our "Bill Owens: Working/Leisure" are narrated in the subjects’ own words, capturing Americans hard at work and equally hard at play.

As writer Lewis Lapham has observed, "To look at Bill Owens’ photographs is to know wherein lies the health and safety of the American democracy. Not in the Pentagon’s nuclear arsenal, or in the Department of Homeland Security’s surveillance cameras watching over New York banks and the Washington politicians, but in the mongrel energies of an uncowed people proud of what they do and make. Homo Faber (“Working Man”), determined to build the raft of an identity and purpose on which to float the speculation of his or her life, liberty and pursuit of happiness."

06/19/2024

This PBS video gives you insight into Dana Gluckstein's incredible series "Dignity: Tribes in Transition." The artist spent three decades in the Americas, Africa, Asia, and the Pacific creating more than 60 black-and-white, duotone portraits that appear in the exhibition and express the theme. The work helped create a turning point for the Obama administration to adopt the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples – a historic milestone. We are proud to offer this https://www.art2art.org/dignity-dana-gluckstein.html

Dana Gluckstein has traveled the world to capture the stories of indigenous peoples.

06/18/2024

Any plans for summer picnics? Here's one captured by photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson "Sunday on the Banks of the Marne." It's part of our "French Twist," which features 100 rare vintage prints from the golden age of French photography, 1900-1940. Check out the show on our site https://www.art2art.org/french-twist.html

06/17/2024

One of our featured Nancy Baron has a wonderful exhibit about living their best lives in . It's perfect for these dog days of summer . . . which just so happens to be the name of the group exhibit in which Baron will be showing soon. It's at the Center for Photographic Art Carmel and opening in August!

Palm Springs: Modern Dogs • At HomeIn good times and bad, our best friends are there for support, therapy, and unconditional love. Especially now--where would we be without our dogs? Although the so-called modernists of Palm Springs embrace the serenity of life in post WWII America, the sometimes-...