Photography Exhibition: The National Portrait Gallery - In Vibrant Color: Vintage Celebrity Portraits from the Harry Warnecke Studio

Periodically the National Portrait Gallery has some incredible photographic portrait exhibitions. In Vibrant Color: Vintage Celebrity Portraits from the Harry Warnecke Studio is such an exhibition.

This exhibition will run through September 9, 2012

Photography Exhibition: The National Portrait Gallery - Glimpse of the Past: A Neighborhood Evolves

Periodically the National Portrait Gallery has some incredible photographic portrait exhibitions. Glimpse of the Past: A Neighborhood Evolves is such an exhibition. With attributed and unattributed works you get a insight into the history of official Washington, DC, through photographs.

This exhibition will run through January 8, 2012

Photography Exhibition: The National Portrait Gallery - Faces of the Frontier

Periodically the National Portrait Gallery has some incredible photographic portrait exhibitions. Faces of the Frontier: Photographic Portraits from the American West, 1845-1924 is such an exhibition.

This exhibition will run through January 24, 2010

Photography Exhibition: At the National Portrait Gallery - Portraiture Now: Feature Photography

There is a wonderful photography exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., Portraiture Now: Feature Photography.

The exhibition runs through September 27, 2009.

“Portraiture Now: Feature Photography” focuses on six photographers who, by working on assignment for publications such as the New Yorker, Esquire, and the New York Times Magazine, each bring their distinctive “take” on contemporary portraiture to a broad audience. Critically acclaimed for their independent fine-art work, these photographers—Katy Grannan, Jocelyn Lee, Ryan McGinley, Steve Pyke, Martin Schoeller, and Alec Soth—have also pursued a variety of editorial projects, taking advantage of the opportunities and grappling with the parameters that these assignments introduce. Their work builds upon a longstanding tradition of photographic portraiture for the popular press and highlights creative possibilities for twenty-first-century portrayal.

If you're in the Washington D.C. area, don't miss this exhibition. The National Portrait Gallery is conveniently located at Eighth and F Streets, NW, in Washington D.C., above the Gallery Place–Chinatown Metrorail station (red, yellow, and green lines). The Gallery is open from 11:30 a.m.–7:00 p.m. daily, but closed December 25th. There is no admission fee.

If you can't make it in person to Portraiture Now: Feature Photography, you can see a limited number of the works, in the actual exhibition, in the Feature Photography online gallery. Take some time to wet your appetite to visit the Portraiture Now: Feature Photography in person by viewing the online version of the exhibition.

As I travel, I love seeing the work of other photographers as I hope you do. If you know of a new photographic exhibition which you think the Blog should publicize, please contact me.

Photography Exhibition: At the Getty Museum - In Focus: The Portrait

There is a terrific photographic exhibit at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, In Focus, The Portrait.

The exhibit runs through June 14, 2009.

Following the invention of photography in 1839, portraiture became accessible to all. The 1850s marked the beginning of the medium's commercialization. Continuing technical improvements enabled the instant capture of likenesses under virtually any condition and expanded the dialogue between the photographer and the sitter.

While photography was first presented as the most truthful of representations, its underlying subjectivity is especially relevant in portraiture.

This exhibit is made exclusively of images from the J. Paul Getty Museum's collection. The selection of portraits surveys the relationship between photographer and subject, including formal portraits, intimate pictures, and documentary photographs.

Among my favorites in the exhibition are works by Matthew Brady, Edward Steichen, Paul Strand and Alfred Stieglitz. In the exhibition, Stieglitz's portrait of his wife, Georgia O'Keeffe is marvelous. O'Keeffe is one of America's most famous and celebrated artists. Just last week I saw two small, but terrific examples of O'Keeffe's work at the Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts is the oldest school of art, and houses the oldest art museum in the United States. It is internationally renown for its collections of 19th and 20th century American paintings, sculptures, and works on paper.

If you're in the Los Angeles area, be sure to visit the Getty and see this wonderful photographic exhibition.

As I travel, I love seeing the work of other photographers as I hope you do. If you know of a new photographic exhibition which you think the Blog should publicize, please contact me.