Filling the Void
The scent of spackle is in the air! With the Snapshot show packed up and sent home, the photography galleries are being reconfigured and repainted for two new shows featuring works from the Carter’s enormous permanent collection of photography.
On May 10, a new rotation of Masterworks of American Photography will go up. Of the twenty-some-odd works in the show, only two have ever been exhibited here before. Many of the photographs are new to the Carter, acquired (and cataloged by your truly) just in the past year. Three of these new photography acquisitions are quite large; one measures 6 x 8 feet!
Nell Dorr: From Everlasting to Everlasting opens on May 17 in the gallery adjacent to Masterworks. Dorr was a photographer who focused on family life, but she also shot many portraits and experimented with photograms. The Carter holds Dorr’s archive of over 5800 works, and this is the first time we’ve done a survey of her work.
I love photograms, so I was happy to find one in this show that I had never seen before:
Nell Dorr, [Light abstraction photogram], ca. 1950s-1960s