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Depth of Field: Acquisitions to UMBC’s Photography Collection, 2008-2018

Todd Forsgren
Adelaide’s Warbler (Setophaga adelaidae), 2009
From the series Ornithological Photographs
Inkjet print
Accession no. P2016-07-001
© Todd Forsgren, used with permission
 

August 29 – December 19, 2018

Depth of Field presents approximately one-hundred images acquired over the last ten years by UMBC’s Photography Collections through generous gifts from donors and artists. The photographs on view highlight the breadth and depth of the collection and illustrate the range of forms, technology, and artists that historically shaped the medium and are presently impacting its ongoing evolution.

Artists included:

Laurie Brown, Kristin Capp, Clarence Carvell, William Eggleston, Donna Ferrato, Robert Fichter, Todd Forsgren, Peggy Fox, Sally Gall, Ralph Gibson, Penny Harris, Sam Holden, Irina Ionesco, Walter Ioos, N. Jay Jaffee, Brian Jones, Nate Larson, Alen MacWeeney, Mary Ellen Mark, Dorothy Norman, David Seltzer, David Seymour, Steve Szabo, Barbara Traub, Peter Turnley, Robert Von Sternberg.


two women in subway
N. Jay Jaffee
Woman and Young Girl in Subway, 1951
Gelatin silver print
selenium toned Accession no. P2012-17-012
© The N. Jay Jaffee Trust, used with permission
young man standing
Studio of R. Yamamoto, Yokohama, Japan
U.S. Sailor Earnest Estens, of the U.S.S. South Dakota, early 20th Century Cabinet card,
Accession no. P2016-01-014

landscape
Barbara Traub
Free Cloud, 1995
Gelatin silver print
Accession no. 2013-02-016
© Barbara Traub, used with permission
portrait of a young woman
Lotte Jacobi
Marlene Dietrich, 1929
Accession no. P2013-31-014
© Lotte Jacobi Collection, UMBC
Abandoned house in the field
Steve Szabo
Goat House, Wolf Trap Creek, 1976
From the series Eastern Shore
Platinum print Collection 254
© Steve Szabo, used with permission of the artist’s estate
interior of an abandoned building
Steve Szabo
Interior, Christ M. E. Church, 1976
From the series Eastern Shore
Platinum print
Collection 254
© Steve Szabo, used with permission
portrait with flowers and bird
Robert Fichter
Dürer with Red Flowers, from the series Florida Photogenesia
1984 Silver-dye bleach print
Collection 132
© Robert Fichter, used with permission

bird stuck in web
Todd Forsgren
Puerto Rican Tody (Todus mexicanus), 2009
From the series Ornithological Photographs
Inkjet print
Accession no. P2016-07-006
© Todd Forsgren, used with permission

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