Special Collections sponsors
an ongoing series of exhibitions throughout the year in Magill Library,
featuring items from Haverford's collections. Material exhibits are arranged
in the Sharpless Gallery and in the library's foyer. Online exhibitions
are listed to the left.
Current Exhibition
Framing Photographs: Contexts & Transpositions
Sharpless Gallery, Magill Library, Haverford College
March 21 to June 1, 2008
For this exhibition the members of the 2007-2008 Faculty
Seminar, Photography, Modernism, and Post-Modernism, have selected
images from Special Collections along with an eclectic mix of supplemental
materials: projects by artists, merchandise, books, video clips, and posters.
By juxtaposing these artifacts, we hope to examine what makes particular
images make sense, and to create syntactic relations among them that show
their multiple lives across a spectrum of meaning.
New technologies circulate images speedily across spaces
and times. We see this in the overlapping shifts from painting, to photography,
to film and video, to the digital imagery of the internet era. Several
connecting threads are notable in the paintings and photographs upon which
this exhibition is based. At times, they have been placed in new locations,
opening them up to reinterpretations of varying degrees of sophistication.
Often, however, the visual links have been subtler, as existing images-sometimes
intentionally, sometimes not-frame the production and reception of new
representations. None of this visual evidence is entirely as it appears
to be, as none of these images provide unmediated references to the realities
toward which they gesture.
We especially invite you to begin questioning why you see
them as you do.
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