American Horizons: The Photographs of Art SinsabaughAmerican Horizons: The Photographs of Art Sinsabaughhttp://www.haverford.edu/calendar/details/69002/1223827200WCC Art Gallery2008-10-12T12:00:002008-10-12T17:00:00
October 12, 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM
WCC Art Gallery
Exhibit
Description
Trained at Chicago's famed Institute of Design, Art Sinsabaugh (1924-1983) made his artistic breakthrough in the early 1960s with a giant "banquet" camera that produced 12 x 20-inch negatives. He developed a unique methodology that utilized the extra-large-format contact prints cropped (sometimes dramatically) to evoke the sweeping horizons he saw in nature. He was a landscape photographer in the broadest sense: he photographed the spaces—both rural and urban—that we inhabit.
The retrospective "American Horizons: The Photographs of Art Sinsabaugh," organized by the Indiana University Art Museum, represents the first complete survey of the artist's career ever assembled. It includes over eighty-five photographs, with the majority drawn from the Art Sinsabaugh Archive at Indiana University, Bloomington. The retrospective is accompanied by the long-awaited monograph on the artist, written by Keith F. Davis, noted photo-historian and the exhibition's guest curator, and a 19-minute video on the artist's life, produced by the Indiana University's Radio-Television Services and recently broadcast nationally by PBS.
Photo:
Jon Pownall, American, died 1973. Art Sinsabaugh on Balcony of Marina City after Making Chicago Landscape #157, 1964 Gelatin silver print. Image: h. 7-1/4 x w. 9-3/8" (18.4 x 23.8 cm); mount: h. 14 x w. 11" (35.6 x 27.9 cm) Art Sinsabaugh Archive, Indiana University Art Museum 300.X.73.1 (c) 2003, Lynda Pownall-Carlson
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