Beauty and Death in the Antarctic

Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of Robert Falcon Scott’s successful and doomed expedition to the South Pole. Photographs by Herbert Ponting, Joan Myers and Frank Hurley.

Jack Spencer • Aparicioñes
March 12 - April 12, 2004

Jack Spencer's umber-colored images of rural life in the American south and Mexico have been compared to the writings of William Faulkner, Cormac McCarthy, and Flannery O'Connor. His exquisitely crafted prints are the result of an exceptional vision, original darkroom technique, and a marvelous sense of story. Spencer is known for his photographs of humid bayou country, hard living black musicians, dogs cavorting, and folks going about their business in the backwaters of the Mississippi River Delta. He also worked in Mexico for three years on "Apariciones," a series of over seventy-five images of people and landscapes filled with magical realism. Spencer's newest project is a series of landscapes taken in various parts of the United States simply called, "This Land."

Joan Myers • Wondrous Cold: An Antarctic Journey
November 28, 2003 - January 15, 2004

Over the last twenty five years Joan Myers has undertaken one ambitious project after another. Long fascinated with the South Pole, Myers was chosen by the National Science Foundation to participate in their 2002-2003 Antarctic Artists and Writers Program. She spent four months photographing virtually every aspect at McMurdo Station and elsewhere in the Antarctic. Inside the station she documented scientific activities, personnel, and infrastructures. Outside the base she photographed historic huts, geologic wonders and wildlife. Myers will be collaborating with New York Times science writer Sandra Blakeslee on a book of her photographs and experiences. For her work on Antarctica Myers was awarded the 2003 Eliot Porter Prize by the New Mexico Council on Photography.

Herman Leonard • Jazz Classics
October 3 - November 15, 2003

Photography and jazz music have been Herman Leonard's two great passions for over fifty years. During the 1940s and 50s he roamed the nightclubs of New York and Paris, photographing the greatest jazz musicians of that era: Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Count Basie, Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong, Sarah Vaughn, and many others. Leonard's photographs depict magical moments when the great jazz musicians are utterly transported by their music, relaxing backstage, and joking among friends.

Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie • Portraits Against Amnesia
August 22 - September 20, 2003

Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie is a seminal figure of the first generation of Contemporary Native photographers. For over thirty years her art has imbued the complex issues of identity with intelligence, wit and grace. Tsinhnahjinnie&Mac246;s speaks to a Native audience, without apology to the "mainstream". Her graphically powerful works involve a layering of abstract imagery, symbols, and personal references from her own life. She is a 2003 Eiteljorg fellow with the prestigious Eiteljorg Museum of American Indian and Western Art in Indianapolis.

Flor Garduno • Inner Light
July 11 - August 10, 2003

Flor Garduño is Mexico's acclaimed "poet-photographer." Her powerful images of native peoples throughout the Americas bridge the threshold between the sacred/temporal worlds, and allow viewers to glimpse what Carlos Fuentes called "the moving portrait of eternity." Recently Garduño has photographed still lifes and female nudes, describing a deeply personal realm in which the artist wanders through the multi-faceted territory of the mythic feminine.

Paul Caponigro • Fifty Years of Photography
March 14 - May 5, 2003

Paul Caponigro has spent fifty years exploring the natural world and architectural forms from antiquity. His printing reflects a heightened sensitivity toward gray tonalities rather than the impact of strong blacks and whites. He invites us to pause for a moment and reflect with fresh eyes on subtle movements in nature like the ebb and flow of tides, surfaces polished by wind and water, or twisted by the elements into goblin-shaped knots and whorls encrusted with lichens.

Ansel Adams • Monumental Classical Photographs
March 14 – April 20, 2003

Ansel Adams is regarded as the greatest landscape photographer of all time. We owe much of our understanding of Western wilderness areas and their preservation to his breathtaking images. Not only was Adams' artistic influence gigantic, so were his mural photographs which he printed in sizes up to 6.5 x 9.5 feet. Adams understood the visual force of monumental photographs. He mastered the process and was regarded as the technical and artistic expert in the field, becoming the virtual authority on what he called, "enlargements with a vengeance."

Baron Wolman • Forever Young
November 29, 2002 - January 15, 2003

In 1967, during rock music's heyday, Baron Wolman met Jann Wenner, the founder of Rolling Stone magazine, who hired him as the magazine's first chief photographer. For the next three years Wolman photographed the royalty of the 60s pop and rock world. His images of Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, the Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, the Who, the Rolling Stones, and other celebrated musicians were the graphic centerpieces of Rolling Stone's layout. Wolman's timeless silver and platinum print images reflect an era when photographers and musicians were part of the same explosive scene.

Danny Lyon • Indian Nations
October 18 - November 18, 2002

Danny Lyon has spent his career photographing marginalized groups in the U.S. and abroad, drawing attention to the human spirit's struggle for economic survival, and providing an inside look at radical, counter-culture lifestyles. The power of his photographs lies in Lyon's ability to create a simple tableau that reveals cultural intensity at its fullest, making it impossible for viewers to side-step challenging issues. Lyon has had major exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Art Institute in Chicago, and the Center for Creative Photography in Arizona.

Magnum Photographers
The Classic Years • 1941-1985
July 5 - August 7, 2002

Magnum Photos, Inc. was founded in 1947 by Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, David Seymour (Chim), George Rodger, among others. They set about to form a consortium that would protect photographer's ownership of photographic negatives, give them editorial control over the use of their photographs, and free them from the tyranny of big magazine or agency editors who took advantage of reporters' time as well as their negatives. For the first time in the history of photography the Magnum agency provided its members with their own copyright. Many Magnum photographs are regarded as classic masterpieces that encapsulate in a single image the sweeping global changes and looming personalities of the twentieth century.

Jerry Uelsmann • Masterwork
November 23, 2001 - January 10, 2002

Jerry Uelsmann is known throughout the world for his dream-like scenes created by hand printing multiple negatives on single sheets of paper. In the 1960s his hybridized style of image-making challenged conventional notions of reality, and changed the language and directions of photography.

Phil Borges • Indigenous People - Landscapes of the Soul
May 18 - June 20, 2001

Phil Borges travels to remote parts of the world photographing people of vastly different backgrounds and cultures. His intimate, split-toned portraits reveal the daily lives and struggles of native peoples around the planet. Borges's portraits were taken in Tibet, Peru, the Amazon Basin, Kenya, Siberia, Mongolia, the Philippines, and elsewhere.

James Balog • Animals on the Border
October 6 - November 17, 2000

James Balog is renowned for his photographs of endangered animals around the world. He has devoted himself to photographically documenting the effects of human exploitation of nature, drawing attention to the fact that some 900 animal species are currently endangered. Recently he has been making lively, candid photographs of wild animals taken at close range with a hand-held camera called the Holga.

Historic Indian Portraiture From the Collection Of Kurt Koegler Part II
August 4 - September 15, 2000

19th and 20th century Indian portraiture from the Kurt Koegler Collection. Kurt Koegler was a New York attorney who began collecting photographs of American Indians in 1979. The photographs from the collection date from the Civil War to 1930. Part II of the Koegler Exhibit includes work by pioneers of photography like John K. Hillers, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan, George Trager, Zeno Schindler, Will Soule, Charles Lummis, Gertrude S. Käsebier, Ben Wittick, and others. Subject matter includes portraits of powerful Indian chiefs who came to Washington, D.C. to negotiate treaties, Indians who were executed after massacres, and Indians who died in battle.