The Saint Louis Art Museum presents The Weight of Things: Photographs by Paul Strand and Emmet Gowin, a free exhibition of 70 prints spanning 100 years, including rare, vintage works of exceptional quality acquired by the Museum from Strand’s archive in 1978 on view Nov. 8, 2013 through Feb. 16, 2014.
The black and white photographs of Americans Paul Strand (1890-1976) and Emmet Gowin (b. 1941) are marked by elegance and visual power. This exhibition presents overviews of careers in which Strand and Gowin pursued and expanded the expressive possibilities of portraiture, landscape, and still life. Preferring the rural to the urban, these photographers revel in details of the familiar and imbue the commonplace with a poetic sensibility. Strand and Gowin also emphasize the physicality of their photographs, which are crafted through specialized materials and elaborate processes in the darkroom. The exhibition title refers to their mutual efforts to evoke the weight and forcefulness of the natural world in their dense prints.
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