Painting with Light: Photography at the Freer|Sackler - Softcover

Huh, Carol; Hogge, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 190780465X ISBN 13: 9781907804656

Publisher: GILES, 2017

Synopsis

This is a completely new guide to the Freer|Sackler Gallery collection of nineteenth- and twentieth-century photographs from Asia and the Middle East, which features some remarkable early photography as well as newly acquired works by leading modern and contemporary artists, photographers and film-makers. Highlights include extremely rare photonegative portraits of Cixi (1835–1908), the Qing empress dowager of China, photographed by the son of her senior lady-in-waiting, who may have been the only person ever permitted to photograph her. There is also a series of photos taken by Alice Roosevelt Longworth during the Taft Mission to Asia in 1905.

About this title

About the Author:

David Hogge has served as head of the Freer|Sackler Archives since 2001, guiding the department through its transition into the digital age. In particular, Hogge is working to give due visibility to the Archives’ mportant collections of early photography of Asia. He received a master’s degree in art history, with an Asian art emphasis, from the University of Washington in 1993.

Carol Huh, associate curator of contemporary Asian art, became the reer|Sackler’s first curator of contemporary art in 2007. Through exhibitions, acquisitions, and public programs, Huh focuses on current social change and artistic production related to Asia. Recent projects have
included such exhibitions as Symbolic Cities: The Work of Ahmed Mater, the museum’s ongoing Perspectives series (featuring works by Y.Z. Kami, Hale Tenger, Hai Bo, Rina Bannerjee, and Michael Joo, among others), and Fiona Tan: Rise and Fall (Vancouver Art Gallery), for which Huh was the in-house curator. She received bachelor’s and
master’s degrees from Georgetown University

About this edition

• Publisher: GILES
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 190780465X
• ISBN 13: 9781907804656
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 216