Double Take: Selected Views from the Photography Collection at Bryn Mawr College, 1860s-present

Exhibition hours: Monday through Friday, noon to 4:30 pm
Through February 17, 2012
Rare Book Room, Canaday Library

Gallery talk
5 pm, Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Rare Book Room, Canaday Library

Zoe Strauss, Philadelphia, PA (Melissa’s Handstand), 2004, color inkjet print; Gift of Robert and Marianne Weldon (2010.35.2)

Bryn Mawr College’s exhibition Double Take: Selected Views from the Photography Collection at Bryn Mawr College, 1867-2009 has been extended through February 17, 2012. Culminating, chronologically, with a group of recent photographs by Philadelphia’s Zoe Strauss, the subject of a current exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the exhibition spans nearly the entire history of the photographic medium, presenting a wide variety of works in unexpected pairings and groupings.

Exhibition curator Carrie Robbins and exhibition intern Nathanael Roesch—both graduate students in history of art at Bryn Mawr—will engage in an informal discussion of the exhibition at 5 pm on Wednesday, February 15, 2012, addressing the Bryn Mawr photography collection as well as the manner in which this exhibition was conceived, selected, and installed. Brian Wallace, Bryn Mawr’s new Curator and Academic Liaison for Art and Artifacts, will introduce Robbins and Roesch.

More information on, and selected images from, the exhibition may be found at http://www.brynmawr.edu/library/double_take_exhibition.html.