The National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. is such a gem. It is free and has a great variety of art and activities for visitors with all kinds of interests. I love photography and constantly keep an eye on art exhibitions around the city. This time I invite you to go see "The Memory of Time: Contemporary Photographs at the National Gallery of Art, Acquired with the Alfred H. Moses and Fern M. Schad Fund".
The photographs on display present a complex view into photography as a means of artistic expression and as a way to capture reality. The focus is, as the exhibition's name suggests, on time and it's perception. I mention the world complex as this show does not present photographs in historical order. Rather, it looks into how technological advances have changed the way we take photos (as we tend to document every single detail of our lives on social media) and the way we alter photos (digital ages allows us to alter anything and everything to our liking).
The photographs on display present a complex view into photography as a means of artistic expression and as a way to capture reality. The focus is, as the exhibition's name suggests, on time and it's perception. I mention the world complex as this show does not present photographs in historical order. Rather, it looks into how technological advances have changed the way we take photos (as we tend to document every single detail of our lives on social media) and the way we alter photos (digital ages allows us to alter anything and everything to our liking).
The exhibition is divided into five sections: “Traces of History,” “Time Exposed,” “Memory and the Archive,” “Framing Time and Place,” and “Contemporary Ruins.” Some of the photographers on display are Sally Mann, Myra Greene, Binh Dahn, Miyako Ishiuchi, and Vera Lutter.
As you walk around, you will be reminded of the reality as we know it these days - as an extremely fluid phenomenan that can be altered at will and yet captured in photography with a clean message. Pause in front of the photographs and see what feelings they evoke in you!
As you walk around, you will be reminded of the reality as we know it these days - as an extremely fluid phenomenan that can be altered at will and yet captured in photography with a clean message. Pause in front of the photographs and see what feelings they evoke in you!
 Chuck Close, American, born 1940, Kara, 2007, daguerreotype, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Alfred H. Moses and Fern M. Schad Fund © Chuck Close, courtesy Pace Gallery |  Idris Khan, British, born 1978, Houses of Parliament, London, 2012, digital silver bromide print, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Alfred H. Moses and Fern M. Schad Fund © Idris Khan |
The Memory of Time: Contemporary Photographs at the National Gallery of Art, Acquired with the Alfred H. Moses and Fern M. Schad Fund is on display until September 13, 2015 in the West Ground Floor Galleries.