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Fieldtrip

Fieldtrip: Three Exhibitions in DC

By HCC

Three exhibitions:

Harry Callahan at 100, Annie Leibovitz: Pilgrimage and
Jeff Milstein’s Aircraft: The Jet as Art
Saturday February 25th leaving at 12:00 NooRevised 1-23-12
The Harrisburg Camera Club will be traveling to Washington D.C. to the National Gallery of Art to view their current exhibition on photography;  “Harry Callahan at 100″ and “Annie Leibovitz: Pilgrimage” at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.  We should arrive in D.C. about 2:30.  There is also small photographic exhibition by contemporary photographer Jeffery Milstein, “Aircraft: The Jet as Art”at the National Air and Space Museum.  There should be enough time to see all three exhibitions and all are free.
Harry Callahan (1912–1999) was one of the most innovative and influential photographers of the 20th century. Celebrating the centenary of his birth, the exhibition of some 100 photographs explores all facets of Callahan’s art, from its genesis in Detroit in the early 1940s and its flowering in Chicago in the late 1940s and 1950s to its maturation in Providence and Atlanta from the 1960s through the 1990s. Throughout his long career, he repeatedly found new ways of looking at and presenting the world in photographs that are elegant, visually daring, and highly experimental.Annie Leibovitz: Pilgrimage charts a new direction for one of America’s best-known living photographers. Unlike her staged and carefully lit portraits made on assignment for magazines and advertising clients, the photographs in this exhibition were taken simply because Leibovitz was moved by the subject. The images speak in a commonplace language to the photographer’s curiosity about the world she inherited, spanning landscapes both dramatic and quiet, interiors of living rooms and bedrooms, and objects that are talismans of past lives.

The exhibition includes 64 photographs taken between April 2009 and May 2011. The Smithsonian American Art Museum is acquiring the works on display in the exhibition for its permanent collection.

The pictures, although there are no people in them, are in a certain sense portraits of subjects that have shaped Leibovitz’s distinctly American view of her cultural inheritance. Visiting the homes of iconic figures including Thomas Jefferson, Emily Dickinson, Georgia O’Keeffe, Pete Seeger, and Elvis Presley, as well as places such as Niagara Falls, Walden Pond, Old Faithful, and the Yosemite Valley, she let her instincts and intuitions guide her to related subjects—hence the title “Pilgrimage.” Some of the pictures focus on the remaining traces of photographers and artists she admires, such as Julia Margaret Cameron, Ansel Adams, and Robert Smithson.

Pilgrimage is an evocative and deeply personal statement by a photographer whose career now spans more than forty years, encompassing a broad range of subject matter, history, and stylistic influences. Together the pictures show Leibovitz at the height of her powers, unfettered by the demands of her career and pondering how photographs, including her own, shape a narrative of history that informs the present.

The Callahan exhibition closes at 5:00 and the Leibovitz exhibition closes at 7:00 so leaving at noon will give us time to see both.

AS A BONUS:

If you are interested in staying later to do night photography in the Mall that evening please let Vice-President Randal Lathrop or President Andrew Hoff know so we can arrange proper carpooling.   Sunset will fall around 6:00, which means competition photography will be allowed at around 7:00.  We would leave for Harrisburg at 8:30.

We will be leaving from the Arby’s side of the Giant grocery store parking lot in Camp Hill at 12 Noon  Saturday February 25th.  We anticipate returning to Camp Hill around 8:00.  If you are staying to photograph, around 10:30.  The exhibition is free and we will carpool down.  We strongly encourage riders to share the cost of gasoline with the driver. 

Any questions contact Andrew Hoff or Randal Lathrop.

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