Brought to Light: Masterworks of Photography from the Crocker Art Museum
The first survey of the Museum's photography collection in more than a decade, this exhibition showcases the history and artistic development of contemporary photography. “Brought to Light,” on view through September 3, 2012, features 49 works from the 19th through the 21st century and showcases the history and artistic development of contemporary photography. The exhibition includes celebrated images by artists that have defined how we see the photograph, including Peter Henry Emerson, Laura Gilpin, Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, and Irving Penn. The beauty of the medium and its embrace of aesthetic, social, and conceptual concerns moves from the darkroom to the digital in this exhibition. IMAGE: Yousuf Karsh, “Pablo Picasso,” 1954. Gelatin silver print, 19 ½ x 15 ¾ in. Crocker Art Museum. Gift of Rex Backman.
