Through the Lens: An American Century
Name:
Through the Lens: An American Century
Date:
January 12, 2015 - April 3, 2015
Website:
http://museum.wsu.edu
Event Description:
Through the Lens: An American Century - Vivian Maier & CORBIS
We are proud to present two distinct exhibitions, which explore the personal and public uses of photography featuring some of the most famous images in history and - until a recent discovery - the most private.
Since its founding, CORBIS has collected hundreds of thousands of photographs that represent great and small moments and personalities throughout history. Here we showcase a selection of 30 iconic photographs through times of war or peace, the first flight at Kitty Hawk and the moon landing or the quest for civil rights. Each picture stands as a defining moment within a signature event or personality in the 20th century. All works come to us from the Tony and Leslie Rojas Collection of Photography.
Vivian Maier was born in 1926 and spend most of a quiet anonymous life in Chicago. She died in 2009 and left no heirs of family. Unbeknownst to anyone, she did however leave a legacy of brilliant "street photography:" a hundred thousand negatives, thousands of rolls of undeveloped film, in color and black and white, and one hundred and fifty 8-mm. and 16-mm. films. The images here represent a selection of the photographs that were discovered after her death.
We are proud to present two distinct exhibitions, which explore the personal and public uses of photography featuring some of the most famous images in history and - until a recent discovery - the most private.
Since its founding, CORBIS has collected hundreds of thousands of photographs that represent great and small moments and personalities throughout history. Here we showcase a selection of 30 iconic photographs through times of war or peace, the first flight at Kitty Hawk and the moon landing or the quest for civil rights. Each picture stands as a defining moment within a signature event or personality in the 20th century. All works come to us from the Tony and Leslie Rojas Collection of Photography.
Vivian Maier was born in 1926 and spend most of a quiet anonymous life in Chicago. She died in 2009 and left no heirs of family. Unbeknownst to anyone, she did however leave a legacy of brilliant "street photography:" a hundred thousand negatives, thousands of rolls of undeveloped film, in color and black and white, and one hundred and fifty 8-mm. and 16-mm. films. The images here represent a selection of the photographs that were discovered after her death.
