CENTURY
The Melvin and Lorna Rubin Gallery
April 25 – November 3, 2019
CENTURY is an artful look at life over a 100-year period by some of the 20th century’s greatest photographers. It features thirty-six new photographs that have entered the Harn Museum photography collection in the last two years. Included are luminaries André Kertész, Laura Gilpin, Helen Levitt, Walker Evans, Eudora Welty, W. Eugene Smith, Larry Burrows, Danny Lyon, Mitch Epstein, Terry Evans, and more. Quotes from art critic, artist and activist, John Berger, act as a guide through the exhibition.
Credits:
DETAIL: Danny Lyon. Texas prison rodeo, The Walls, Huntsville, TX. Neg: 1968, print: 2011.
Gift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill Garling
Object number: 2017.77.5
DETAIL: Terry Evans. Train north of Matfield Green, Chase County, Kansas, July 2009. Print 2018.
Museum purchase, funds provided by David A. Cofrin Acquisition Endowment
Object number: 2018.36.3
DETAIL: Paula Chamlee. Creitz Farm, Near Adrian, TX, 58 #2. 1994
Gift of Melvin and Lorna Rubin
Object number: 2006.38.22
