This Sunday, I think I'll finally have a chance to get over to the Philadelphia Museum of Art to see two photo exhibits I've been wanting to see for many many weeks now. But there is a 20% chance of rain on Sunday. Rain would make for a pretty shitty walk from South St.
The first show I really want to see is of Eugène Atget, one of the masters. This exhibit, Looking at Atget, includes 120 images. From the PMA description:
Looking at Atget focuses on the responses to his work by Levy and the photographer Berenice Abbott, who together first introduced Atget’s work to an American audience after Atget's death in 1927. Abbott purchased the contents of his workroom in Paris and brought the collection to New York, where she received Levy's financial backing. Together they promoted the work in a series of exhibitions and publications. Abbott (who took Atget's work as a model for her own photographic record, begun in 1929, of New York City) presented Atget as a great "styleless" photographer who recorded the world around him with humility and respect for his subjects.
The other show is Mavericks of Color Photography from the Collection. This one includes about fifty photos of early adopters of color photography from the 1950s - 1970s.
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