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19th Century Photography Goes Modern at DCCA
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Short Description: including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the San. Francisco Museum of Modern Art. In 2001, Time Magazine named her "America’s ...
Content Inside: Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts 200 South Madison Street, Wilmington, DE 19801 302.656.6466 www.thedcca.org For immediate release Jan. 18, 2006 Contact: Larry Nagengast, 302.656.6466 or 302.373.5254 lmnagengast@thedcca.org Photos available 19th Century Photography Goes Modern at DCCA `Old Media, New Visions' Exhibition Now Open WILMINGTON An intriguing exhibition that demonstrates how photographers can find a contemporary voice while employing techniques that have existed for a century or more opened Jan. 13 at the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts. The exhibition, Old Media, New Visions, features the works of nine photographers, including Sally Mann of Lexington, Va., named "America's Best Photographer" in 2001 by Time magazine. The artists in the exhibition work with daguerrotypes and ambrotypes, pigment prints from collodion negatives, hand-colored silver prints, tintypes, cyanotypes and images taken with pinhole cameras. In addition to Mann, participating artists are: Nancy Breslin of Newark; Susan Fenton of Bala Cynwyd, Pa.; Alida Fish of Wilmington; Adam Fuss and Terry Towery of New York; France Scully Osterman and Mark Osterman of Rochester, N.Y., and Judith Taylor of Philadelphia. All nine artists in this exhibition, many of whom have national and international reputations, are interested in 19th-century media. Some combine old and new by taking a 21st-century digital approach to their use of these media. "This is a very interesting show because the work is beautiful and fascinating, and because of the revival of what some would consider `antique' photographic processes. These artists have found new ways to use these processes to make images that relate to the contemporary world," said J. Susan Isaacs, the DCCA's adjunct curator, who organized the exhibition. Old Media, New Visions continues at the DCCA through June 4. An artists' reception is planned as part of the Members' Evening on Feb. 16. Several sessions of the DCCA's Art Salad brown-bag lunch programs will focus on the exhibition. Here is some background information on the exhibiting artists: Sally Mann, perhaps the best known of the group, has received many awards, among them a Guggenheim fellowship and three National Endowment for the Arts fellowships. Her work is included in the permanent collection of major international museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. In 2001, Time Magazine named her "America's Best Photographer." In 1991, her work was featured in the Biennial Exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art. She was the subject of two documentary programs aired in
