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Girault de Prangey: A Forgotten Pioneer of Photography
Despite the importance and innovation of this work, Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey’s legacy has long been obscure.
Albert Bierstadt oil landscape painting of Mount St. Helens, Columbia River, Oregon
Volcano! Mount St. Helens in Art
To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the great eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980, the Portland Art Museum presents Volcano! Mount St. Helens in Art, an exhibition examining artists’ responses to…
platinum photograph print of Leopold Hamilton Myers as 'The Compassionate Cherub'
In Focus: Platinum Photographs
The use of platinum was quickly embraced by both professional and amateur photographers alike and helped to establish photography as a fine art.
cataloguers at work on photography
Behind the Scenes with a Cataloguer
What do cataloguers do? What information about photographs is most relevant to record?
two parents cradle their child who has had a face transplant
Photographing Face Transplants and Revolutions
An award-winning photographer with decades of experience, Maggie Steber does not spare herself when examining her career.
group of small children close their eyes in prayer
Scotland’s Photograph Album
The current exhibition at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh, Scotland’s Photograph Album: The MacKinnon Collection, showcases the infinite, multiform beauty of Scotland, its people…
old image of Capitoline Lion in the Roman Forum
Conserving One of MoMA's Oldest Photographs
Tarnish is slowly engulfing one of the oldest objects in MoMA's collection, a daguerreotype from 1842.
Graciela Iturbide, Angel Woman, Sonora Desert, Mexico, 1979 (printed later). Gelatin-silver print.
Figures Within the Landscape Reveal the Spirit of Mexico
Luces y Sombras means Lights and Shadows, a fitting title for an extraordinary show of 45 black and white photographs of 20th century Mexico.
Troi Anderson, Untitled #12, 2016, inkjet print. Collection of the Museum of Photographic Arts. Gift of the artist, Jon Doellstedt, John Mullen and Mike Brase, John Renner and Thomas Lane, and Fred Ross and Aaron Creurer.
The Stories They Tell: A Hundred Years of Photography
Drawing from its extensive archive—nearly 9,000 works from 850 international photographers—the MOPA is exploring the history and development of photography in the past hundred years with The Stories…
Gold Rush. At the end of the day, scrambles in front of a bank to buy gold. The last days of Kuomintang, Shanghai, 23 December 1948.
Photographing a Changing Communist China
Seventy years ago, the Communist leader Mao Zedong officially founded the People’s Republic of China. It was October 1st, 1949, and the French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson had left China just a…
Stanley Kubrick photograph, Columbia University, 1948
Through a Different Lens: Stanley Kubrick Photographs
For those who know him as a filmmaker, Stanley Kubrick’s early stint as a photojournalist is a revelation.
Kuzma & Ajuan
Wonder Without Land: Interstellar Photography
Wonder Without Land submerges the audience into a beautified and grotesque dreamscape exploring themes in childhood memory, construction of identity, discovery of sensory experiences and…
A painter naps at a craft art store specializing in ideological portraits, Chengdu, Sichuan province, 1980.
Life in a Sea of Red: 40 Years Photographing Communism
A Life in a Sea of Red presents six different political and social eras in Communist China and the Soviet Union.
Siri Thorson, Polaroid from the series Portrait of the San Juan Islands
Exploring the Role of a Flower
What is the role of a flower? It just exists. And those who like to go and look at it, smell it and like it, say, what a beautiful flower it is, it exists.
Hank Willis Thomas, Black Righteous Space, 2012.
Confronting Inequality Through Conceptual Art
This fall the Portland Art Museum presents Hank Willis Thomas: All Things Being Equal..., the first major survey of the work of one of America’s most important conceptual artists working today.