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Alfred Stieglitz: Known and Unknown Works
Category: Focus on America Published: November 2002
". . . He sought to make photographs that were the pictorial equivalents of emotional responses, similar to music."
 
An Eye for Beauty: The Elton John Collection Jane Jackson
Category: Focus on America Published: January 2001
The exhibition at Atlanta's High Museum "is about the sincere passion of a collector and his desire not only to live with his collection, but to share his love of these images with his friends and the public."
 
Ansel Adams at 100
Category: Focus on America Published: May 2002
"His photographs transcend the simple description of objects and landscape; they depict transient aspects of light, atmosphere, and natural phenomena."
 
Death's Indelible Impression
Category: Focus on America Published: July 2004
"Sally Mann: What Remains" -- ". . . At the base of a hickory tree was a glistening pool of dark blood. I was tempted to touch its perfectly tensioned surface. Instead, as I stared, it shrank perceptively . . . As if the Earth had taken a delicate sip."
 
Deromanticizing the West: The Portraits of Richard Avedon
News View Category: Focus on America Published: December 2005
 
Diane Arbus' Revelations of Life
Category: Focus on America Published: January 2004
Her "gift for rendering strange those things we consider most familiar continues to challenge our assumptions about the nature of everyday life and compels us to look at the world in a new way."
 
Edward Weston: Pictorialist Pioneer
Category: Focus on America Published: September 2003
The photographer "previsualized in the ground glass of his camera a new ideal in the form of the absolute real."
 
Edward Weston: The Last Years David Travis
Category: Focus on America Published: September 2001
". . . As he developed his art beyond technical virtuosity, Weston created photographs that could hold more-profound meaninggs, and thus a greater variety of interpretations."
 
Exile in a Strange Country: The Photography of John Gutmann Iain Ross
Category: Focus on America Published: May 2001
"Gutmann observed the life of [San Francisco] with the detachment of an anthropologist examining an exotic culture."
 
Freedom: Norman Rockwell's Vermont Years
News View Category: Focus on America Published: August 2003
 
In Celebration of Light
News View Category: Focus on America Published: August 2004
 
It's Off to the Races Douglas McCulloh
Category: Focus on America Published: September 2005
"Faster: The Pomona Drags" examines a remarkable head-on confrontation between two technologies that have shaped the Southern California psyche--cars and cameras."
 
New Orleans After the Flood
Category: Focus on America Published: November 2006
"In the city that itself resembles a lost civilization, wrecked rooms, caved-in houses, and ravaged neighborhoods become metaphors for the fragility of human life."
 
Portraits by Richard Avedon
Category: Focus on America Published: November 2002
"The people in his photographs seem posed to walk right out of their frames, immediately recognizable and wholly alive, down to the most-telling detail."
 
The War Between the States Frozen in Time
Category: Focus on America Published: July 2013
A landmark exhibition considers the evolving role of photography during the Civil War.