Featuring artists who transform common found occurrences in nature and humanity into unusual encounters and strange juxtapositions, this exhibition is the first major focus on the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts' photography collection and marks the first collection sharing project with the Eleanor D. Wilson Museum at Hollins University in Roanoke, Va.
The exhibition features provocative legends of the camera, including Berenice Abbott, Diane Arbus, Blythe Bohnen, Judy Dater, Jen Davis, John Divola, Robert Doisneau, Martin Dorbaum, David A. Douglas, Roy DeCarava, Lee Friedlander, Ralph Gibson, Emmet William Gowin, John N. Heroy, Jr., Richard Kent Hough, Connie Imboden, Alen MacWeeney, Sally Mann, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Ray Metzker, Joseph Mills, Brian H. Peterson, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Ruth Thorne-Thomsen, Jerry N. Uelsmann, Garry Winogrand, and Willie Anne Wright.
The Fleeting Glimpse is on view at the Eleanor D. Wilson Museum at Hollins University from September 16-December 4, 2010 and then on view at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. The exhibition will travel throughout the Commonwealth in 2011.
Hiroshi Sugimoto, Byrd, Richmond
Gelatin silver print
1993
Copyright © Hiroshi Sugimoto, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
Martin Dorbaum, Italo Boot Mix
Lambda chrome on aluminum
1998
Copyright 2010
Lee Friedlander, Shadow-New York City, 1968
Silver print
1968
Copyright © Lee Friedlander, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
Diane Arbus, Tatooed Man at a Carnival, Maryland, 1970
Silver print
1970
Copyright 2010
Jen Davis, Untitled No. 14, 2005
Chromogenic color photograph
2005
Copyright 2010
Richard Kent Hough, Untitled, ca. 1974-85
Gelatin silver print
1974-85
Copyright 2010