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Photography´s New Vision: Experiments in Seeing

Photography´s New Vision: Experiments in Seeing

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The New Vision movement of the 1920s and 1930s offered a revolutionary approach to seeing the world. It represented a rebellion against traditional photographic methods and an embrace of avant-garde experimentation and innovative techniques. László Moholy-Nagy, an artist and influential teacher at the Bauhaus in Germany, named this period of expansion the “New Vision.” Today, the term encompasses photographic developments…
Look Again: 45 Years of Collecting Photography

Look Again: 45 Years of Collecting Photography

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Photography is a uniquely elastic medium. It can fulfill numerous utilitarian purposes—recording personal memories, chronicling collective histories, or furnishing documentary evidence—yet it also offers dynamic potential for creative expression. The High Museum of Art began collecting photographs in the early 1970s, and the collection now includes more than 7,000 photographs from around the world made by diverse practitioners, from artists…
Walker Evans: Depth of Field

Walker Evans: Depth of Field

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The High Museum of Art in Atlanta will present a major touring retrospective of the work of Walker Evans, one of the most pioneering and influential documentary photographers of the twentieth century. The show is among the most thorough examinations ever presented of the full arc of Evans’s career and the most comprehensive Evans retrospective to be mounted in Europe,…