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Time Travelers: Photographs from the Gayle Greenhill Collection
Can a photograph open a portal to another world? Time Travelers: Photographs from the Gayle Greenhill Collection presents a selection of extraordinary works that each offer entry into a moment in photography鈥檚 history. These objects transport viewers across geographic and temporal distances, or into spaces constructed entirely within the boundaries of a photographic print.
Reflecting a multitude of styles, approaches, and processes, the works in this exhibition date from photography鈥檚 earliest years to our present moment, ranging from William Henry Fox Talbot鈥檚 investigations with the nascent technology in the mid-1800s to JoAnn Verburg鈥檚 immersive representation of the natural landscape in the early 21st century. Some photographs in the exhibition were made for scientific purposes, or to mark a significant event, while others鈥攊ncluding those by Julia Margaret Cameron and Edward Steichen鈥攁ssert the medium as a means of artistic creation. Portraits made under diverse circumstances illuminate the complexities of representing the self and others, while experiments in the image, like those by L谩szl贸 Moholy-Nagy and Jan Groover, explore photography鈥檚 unique modes of vision.
Honoring a generous gift of photographs to MoMA from Robert F. Greenhill in memory of his wife, Gayle Greenhill, Time Travelers invites extended contemplation of these objects and the stories they carry. Its photographs offer encounters with people, things, and events outside our own place and time, in the spirit of photographer Emmet Gowin鈥檚 avowal, 鈥淔or me, pictures provide a means of holding, intensely, a moment of communication between one human and another.鈥�
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Can a photograph open a portal to another world? Time Travelers: Photographs from the Gayle Greenhill Collection presents a selection of extraordinary works that each offer entry into a moment in photography鈥檚 history. These objects transport viewers across geographic and temporal distances, or into spaces constructed entirely within the boundaries of a photographic print.
Reflecting a multitude of styles, approaches, and processes, the works in this exhibition date from photography鈥檚 earliest years to our present moment, ranging from William Henry Fox Talbot鈥檚 investigations with the nascent technology in the mid-1800s to JoAnn Verburg鈥檚 immersive representation of the natural landscape in the early 21st century. Some photographs in the exhibition were made for scientific purposes, or to mark a significant event, while others鈥攊ncluding those by Julia Margaret Cameron and Edward Steichen鈥攁ssert the medium as a means of artistic creation. Portraits made under diverse circumstances illuminate the complexities of representing the self and others, while experiments in the image, like those by L谩szl贸 Moholy-Nagy and Jan Groover, explore photography鈥檚 unique modes of vision.
Honoring a generous gift of photographs to MoMA from Robert F. Greenhill in memory of his wife, Gayle Greenhill, Time Travelers invites extended contemplation of these objects and the stories they carry. Its photographs offer encounters with people, things, and events outside our own place and time, in the spirit of photographer Emmet Gowin鈥檚 avowal, 鈥淔or me, pictures provide a means of holding, intensely, a moment of communication between one human and another.鈥�
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