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My Favorite Objects in Under the Surface: Surrealist Photography

Posted on May 21, 2014 //

Watch a video interview with Andrea Rosen, curator of Under the Surface: Surrealist Photography, produced by student assistant to the curator Kiyomi Mino ’16. My Favorite Objects in “Under the Surface: Surrealist Photography” from Bowdoin Art Museum on Vimeo. Related posts: Frederick Sommer, Max Ernst, 1946 Frederick Sommer, Max Ernst, 1946 Grete Stern, Dream 28, […]

Filed Under: By Curator, By Student, Dream, Portraiture, Posts By Author, Posts By Theme // Tagged: Frederick Sommer, George Platt Lynes, Grete Stern, multiple exposure, photomontage, technical manipulation

George Platt Lynes, Portrait of Thomas Bacon, ca. 1938

Posted on February 7, 2014 //

by Andrea Rosen, Curator of Under the Surface. The Portrait of Thomas Bacon exemplifies striking compositional strategies that invite close, slow looking. Between the two poles of the composition—the subject of the portrait in the lower third and a tear in the backdrop at the top—are at first indecipherable marks, which turn out to be the […]

Filed Under: By Curator, Portraiture // Tagged: George Platt Lynes

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