Everlasting Paris and French Pictures

Join us to find how French photographers from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries used the digital camera to rejoice and protect Paris’s cultural and architectural heritage. Drawing upon works from our assortment, the lecture traces pictures’s position in documenting the town’s transformation. Take a better have a look at images that seize it’s placing Monuments and the ruins of the Paris Commune. Learn extra about Eugène Atget’s portrait of the town on the point of the trendy period and the poetic road pictures of the twentieth century.

About the curator

Sally Martin Katz is affiliate curator of pictures on the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, overseeing the pictures assortment on the Museums’ Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts. Her profession contains curatorial positions at SFMOMA, the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, and the Louvre in Paris. She additionally has curated exhibitions on the Fundación MAPFRE in Madrid and Barcelona and the Southampton Arts Center in New York. Sally holds a PhD in artwork historical past (historical past of pictures) from Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, the place she additionally earned an MA and MFA in pictures.

About the “A Closer Look” sequence

This program is a part of our “A Closer Look” sequence, a curatorial lecture sequence exploring the event of our collections and their artwork historic significance. The sequence options in-depth shows that spotlight assortment gems whereas demystifying artistic practices that span 1000’s of years.

Contact information

Public Programs
publicprograms@famsf.org
415.750.3555

Please notice that this lecture will probably be recorded. It will probably be obtainable to observe on this web page after the occasion.