The Denver Art Museum in Denver, Colorado, currently has a photography exhibit called "Exposure: Photos from the Vault". Among the artist being exhibited are Ansel Adams, Robert Frank, Diane Arbus, Ruth Bernhard, Edward S Curtis, and Ron Wohlauer. It is always inspiring to see the actual photographs of the great photographers and not just pictures in a magazine or on the Internet of the photographs.
The biggest surprise in the show was a nude by Edward S. Curtis who is primarily known for his sepia toned photographs of the American West and of the Native American People. The photograph, Aphrodite, is a blue toned photograph of a woman floating in water on her back shot around the 192O-1930 time frame. From the information I found on the Internet about the photograph, apparently it is a very rare. I'm glad I got a chance to see it.
If you are in Denver and get a chance, I would recommend visiting the Denver Art Museum as well as the Camera Obscura Gallery right across the street. The Camera Obscura Gallery houses one of the finest collections of fine art photography between the East and West coast of the United States. The show " Exposure: Photos from the Vault" at the Denver Art Museum is scheduled to run through October 31, 2010.
The biggest surprise in the show was a nude by Edward S. Curtis who is primarily known for his sepia toned photographs of the American West and of the Native American People. The photograph, Aphrodite, is a blue toned photograph of a woman floating in water on her back shot around the 192O-1930 time frame. From the information I found on the Internet about the photograph, apparently it is a very rare. I'm glad I got a chance to see it.
If you are in Denver and get a chance, I would recommend visiting the Denver Art Museum as well as the Camera Obscura Gallery right across the street. The Camera Obscura Gallery houses one of the finest collections of fine art photography between the East and West coast of the United States. The show " Exposure: Photos from the Vault" at the Denver Art Museum is scheduled to run through October 31, 2010.
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