BMA Hosts 60 Iconic Years Of Photography March 16-June 8

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BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART (BMA) HOSTS PHOTOGRAPHY 1900–1960

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BALTIMORE, MD. — In a featured exhibition opening March 16 and on view through June 8, the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) will host, “Looking through the Lens: Photography, 1900–1960.”

Approximately 150 vintage prints by some of the world’s best-known Twentieth Century photographers are featured in this exhibition of iconic images by European and American artists such as Man Ray, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Weston, Paul Strand, Dorothea Lange and Gordon Parks. Drawn from the BMA’s collection, these rarely shown photographs were produced during a pivotal period in the history of the medium, when photography became fully recognized as an art form.

Organized thematically, “Looking through the Lens” both showcases the work of great artists and illuminates some of the most significant movements and techniques of the first half of the century. Highlights of the exhibition include soft-focus pictoralist-style photogravures published in Alfred Stieglitz’s ground-breaking journal Camera Work, 1903–17, a rare print of Paul Strand’s “Bottle, Book and Orange,” 1916, and brilliant experimental images produced between the wars such as Max Burchartz’s “Lotte’s Eye,” circa 1928, and Edward Weston’s “Pepper,” 1929.

A large section of works by Man Ray demonstrates the influence of Surrealism, while Edward Steichen’s dramatic images of movie stars and Paul Outerbridge’s vivid carbro color prints of cropped nudes and festive still lifes show the cross-fertilization between art, film and advertising.

The exhibition concludes with Harry Callahan and other teachers at the progressive Institute of Design in Chicago whose work extended the influence of European modernism and anticipated some of the new directions photography would take in the second half of the century.

The BMA is at 10 Art Museum Drive. For information, www.artbma.org or 443-573-1870.