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The Asheville Art Museum’s Permanent Collection contains over 500 photographs that are typically kept in the “vault” where they are protected from deterioration and cared for by curators. There is a wide variety of techniques and processes represented in the Collection, with works by acclaimed artists such as Eadweard Muybridge, Diane Arbus, Edward Weston and Louise Nevelson. While selections of photographs are in rotation and can regularly be seen in the Museum’s galleries, the Collection is too expansive to view all at once.
In a new exhibition, Vault Visible: Photographs, Museum curators have carefully selected various works to demonstrate the photography Collection’s scope. These works, along with antique cameras loaned by Warren Wilson College, are on view in the Museum’s free Holden Community Gallery through June 2016. The exhibition, which is a section of the broader exhibition Vault Visible: Behind the Scenes at the Asheville Art Museum, provides an excellent opportunity for in-depth learning about different cameras and photographic processes throughout the last 150 years.
Silver gelatin, platinum, cibachrome, digital and infrared photographs are some of the types of photography explored in the exhibition. An 1865 example of a daguerreotype, the photographic method that shortened exposure time from hours to 10 minutes, is on view as well as a modern interpretation of this same technique. Multimedia work, photo-editing and other innovative approaches to the medium are seen throughout Vault Visible: Photographs.
To explore the photographs and cameras displayed in Vault Visible in greater depth, Eric Baden, Professor of Photography at Warren Wilson College, will lead the Museum’s Art Break discussion on Friday, March 26 at 12:00 p.m. The exhibition and Art Break are held in collaboration with Photo+Craft, an upcoming festival hosted by Warren Wilson College from March 31 through April 3.
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