CMPatti@aol.com
Date: 05/11/01-07:22:12 PM Z
I finally got to the exhibit "Capturing Light: Masterpieces of California
Photography, 1850 to the Present" at the Oakland Museum of California. It
worth a visit for anyone in the Bay area or anyone visiting in the next few
weeks. (Unfortunately, it closes at the end of the month.) The exhibit
includes over 200 photographs from the Museum's collection.
For alternative photography enthusiasts, there are examples of salt prints,
daguerrotypes, albumen prints, platinum, photogravure (both vintage and
contemporary), autochrome, cyanotype, orotone, bromoil, bromoil transfer and
contemporary POP among others. There are brief descriptions of many of the
old processes.
Photographers represented include Carleton Watkins, Eadweard Muybridge,
Timothy O'Sullivan, Arnold Genthe, Edward S. Curtis, Anne Brigman, Imogen
Cunningham, Edward Weston (including some apparently rare surviving work from
his "pictoralist" period), Dorothea Lange, Ansel Adams, John Paul Edwards,
William Mortensen, Willard Van Dyke, Ruth Bernhard, Brett Weston, Peter
Stackpole, George Hurrell, Man Ray, Wynn Bullock, Robert Frank, Bill Owens,
Richard Misrach, Judy Dater, Ted Orland, Roger Minick, Linda Conner, Mark
Klett, and Todd Hido to name only those most recognizable to me.
The catalog, which reproduces all the photographs, is available throught the
Museum.
Chris Patti
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