June 15 to September 30, 2012
Marshall Fine Arts Center
Atrium Gallery Magill Library #40 on Campus Map
Summer Hours:
Weekdays: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Fall Hours:(September 4 to September 30)
Weekdays: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Weekends: 12 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Opening Reception
September 7, 2012, 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
William Wegman, American (1943-) Hand Some, 2002 Chromogenic color print; 18.2×18.2cm Fabric Workshop Philadelphia purchase 2009
Tacita Dean, English (born 1965) 1 66 DEAD 4/5 leafed clovers, 2008 Limited edition silver gelatin print on fiber paper 50 x 35 cm Rare Book Photography Fund Purchase 2010
Sarah Stolfa, American (born 1975) Dinky, Elk’s Lodge, New Haven, CT Color archival pigment print; 72 x 80 cm Photo Review auction purchase, 2009
Art Sinsabaugh, American (1924-1983) Galena, ca 1955 Silver Gelatin Print, vintage; 25.3×20.2cm Gift of Tom Garver HC56, 2011
Man Ray, American (1890-1976) Autoportrait [1972] Screenprint on Japan paper, black and white; 15.9x20cm Swann Gallery auction purchase, April 2009
Barbara Morgan, American (1900-1992) Light Signature [1940, printed 1971] Gelatin silver print, black and white; 33.3×25.7cm Rago Arts auction purchase, summer 2009
Karl Blossfeldt, German (1865-1932) Cephalaria, Small Teasel. Glome enlarged 10 times. Photo Mechanical Process (Gravure or Calotype): 25.8 x19.3cm Plate 77 Urformen der Kunst 1928 Gift of William Williams in Memory of Audrey A. and John L. Dusseau 2009
Edouard Baldus, French, (1813-1889) Givors, Viaduc [circa 1860] Salt print: 24.5x40cm Purchase Photo Review Auction November 2009 Footnote: Sale PR2009. Item #129. November 6, 2009.
Eadweard Muybridge, British (1830-1904) View in the Yosemite Valley, 1869 Albumen Print 39.2×51.6 cm Purchased as Gift of Rafael Fogel ’92 (Fogel Family Collection), Swann Galler Auction NYC 2009 Footnote: Swann Gallery. October 22, 2009. Public Sale Auction 2191. Item #22.
Andrew J.Russell, American (1830-1902) Green River Valley, Looking Down the River, 1869 Albumen Print 22.2×28.6 cm Purchase Swann Gallery auction 2009
Attributed Southworth & Hawes Boston, America 1843-1863 Albert Sands Southworth (1811-1894) and Josiah Johnson Hawes (1808-1901) Portrait of a Gentleman Circa, 1855 Daguerreotype; 15x 14cm Purchase Freeman’s 2011
Harry Warnecke, American (1900-1984) Joe Louis [in Uniform] [circa 1941] Color carbro print 40.6×34.2 cm Swann Gallery, NYC purchase 2009 Footnote: Swann Gallery. October 22, 2009. Public Sale Auction 2191. Sale #188.
Josef Sudek, Moravian-born Czech (1896-1976) The Third Courtyard of the Prague Castle [circa 1947] Gelatin Silver Print, toned brown; 11×15.8 cm Photo Review auction purchase, 2009 Footnote: Sale PR2009. Item #205. November 6, 2009.
Christian Schad, German (1894-1982) Hommage a Dada, 1976 10 silver prints (photographs) and one etching; various and irregular sizes, up to and approximately 31.8×22.9cm Swann Galleries purchase, Gift of Rafael Fogel, Fogel Family Collection.October 19, 2010
Walker Evans, American (1903-1975) Model A comes to rest, 1961-62 Digital color print; 40.6×40.6cm Photograph commissioned by Fortune Magazine a variant was published in April 1962 story by Evans, The Auto Junkyard. Purchase July 1, 2011
Haverford College’s fine art photography collection consists of 5,000 prints and related materials that range from images made in the early years of the medium to contemporary works made by more than 450 photographers.
This exhibition of 42 photographs and related materials has been chosen from more than 200 recent acquisitions that have become part of a rich trove that encompasses all genres of photography, from travel and portraits to conceptual and post-modern work.
The realistic depiction of things, spaces and people began during the Renaissance, continued through the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution into the 18th Century. The rise of the middle class and its support of research in anatomy, botany and physiology spurred this trend. The first students accepted by Haverford College in 1833 were beneficiaries of these modernizing trends. The representation of the natural world through accurate drawing made its first appearance in the College’s curriculum in the same year that it opened when John Collins (1814-1902) was appointed to teach Drawing and Classics.
It is not surprising that the College began to acquire and collect photographs for educational purposes in 1870. By this time photography had established itself as the most efficient and accurate way to represent three-dimensional space. Haverford alumni have played a prominent role in the development of the medium from its earliest history starting with Charles Taber Prang a member of the class of 1839, which was the year the invention of photography was announced to the world in Paris and London by Jacques L. M. Daguerre and William Henry Fox Talbot.
Photographic Acquisitions 2009-2012 does not attempt to provide a comprehensive overview of the history of photography or the role that Haverford alumni have played in its development. The goal is instead to place on view a representative sample of photographs and related works that highlight the reach of the collection and reflect the history of the medium. The 19th Century images range from an 1855 half plate Daguerreotype of a gentleman attributed to Boston photographers Albert Sands Southworth and Josiah Johnson Hawes to a mammoth albumen print of the Yosemite Valley by Eadweard Muybridge. The 20th and 21st Century works include Dadaist, Christian Schad’s photogram to Carrie Mae Weem’s gelatin silver print from her “Kitchen Table Series” to digital color work by alumna, Sarah Kaufman class of 2003.
Exhibitions organized by William Williams, Audrey A. and John L. Dusseau Professor in the Humanities and curator of photography at Haverford College.
