Ecstatic Time: The Alchemy of Photography

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

Spanning the medium’s historical past, Ecstatic Time: The Alchemy of Photography explores how pictures transforms how we see and reshapes our understanding of time, notion, and actuality.

While images are sometimes related to human imaginative and prescient, in addition they have the ability to disclose, remodel, and defamiliarize their topics.

Header: Edward Henry Weston, MGM Studios (element), 1939. Gelatin silver print. Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona: Edward Weston Archive, 81.251.128. © Center for Creative Photography, Arizona Board of Regents

Harold Edgerton, Splash of a Milk Drop, ca. 1938, unfavorable 1938; printed 1977. Dye switch print. Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona: Purchase, 78.189.8. © Harold Edgerton, MIT, courtesy of Palm Press Inc.

Ecstatic Time: The Alchemy of Photography celebrates the 20-year anniversary of the landmark Norton settlement between Phoenix Art Museum and the University of Arizona’s Center for Creative Photography (CCP) in Tucson with a presentation of practically 100 objects from the CCP’s assortment, together with sudden treasures by canonical figures, fascinating examples of course of experimentation and pictures distinguished by puzzling or playful subject material, demonstrating the breadth and inventiveness of inventive pictures.

Harold Edgerton, Bullet by way of Banana, 1964. Dye switch print. Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona: Gift of The Harold and Esther Edgerton Family Foundation, 96.71.5. © Harold Edgerton, MIT, courtesy of Palm Press Inc.

Spanning practically the total historical past of the medium from the 1860s to the current, Ecstatic Time locations explicit emphasis on early Twentieth-century works, with a deal with quirky and eccentric nonetheless lifes. Through 4 thematic sections, it examines pictures’s complicated relationship to time and imaginative and prescient by way of examples of flash pictures, time-lapse imagery and astronomical images, and modern conceptual work. Collectively, the works evoke a cupboard of curiosities, underscoring pictures’s capability for visible alchemy and experimentation.

Chris McCaw, Sunburned GSP #340 (SF Bay Bridge), 2009. Gelatin silver print. Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona: Purchase, 2011.5.1. © 2009 Chris McCaw

Kikuji Kawada, New Couple Who Closed Their Eyes, Tokyo, 1974. Gelatin silver print. Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona: Purchase, with matching funds from Hitachi America, Ltd., 90.11.2. © Kikuji Kawada