Making Light: Wit and Humor in Photography

Ludger tom Ring, the Younger (attributed to), The Open Missal, mid-sixteenth century

Publications

Essay by Joel Smith
32 pages with color illustrations; softbound
Exhibition April 6 - June 11, 2000
Price: $6.00

About the publication

Selected by curator Joel Smith from the collections of the Art Center and several lenders, the seventy photographs in this exhibition range from nineteenth-century stereographs to recent computer-aided imagery, from staged arrangements to candid street scenes, from Victorian parlor humor to postmodern provocation, and from anonymous snapshots to works by such well-known artists as Man Ray, Weegee, Lee Friedlander.

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