January 28 – March 24, 2008

In 1967, the year after the Black Panther Party was founded by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, Stephen Shames was invited to photograph party activities, and he continued to do so until 1973. His close friendship with the Panthers, and Seale in particular, gave Shames unusual access to the organization, allowing him to capture not only the public face of the Party—street demonstrations, protests, and militant posturing—but also unscripted behind-the-scenes moments, from private meetings held in the Party headquarters, to Bobby Seale at work on his mayoral campaign in Oakland. The immediacy and intimacy of Shames’s photographs offer an uncommonly nuanced portrait of this dynamic social movement, during one of the most tumultuous periods in recent U.S. history.

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Public Program

4:00 p.m.
February 20

Talk: Stephen Shames

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The presentation of this exhibition is supported by an arts program grant from the Maryland State Arts Council, an agency funded by the State of Maryland and the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support comes from the Friends of the Library & Gallery and individual contributions.

10 September – 10 December 2007

This exhibition presents black and white and color photographs made by the Austrian-born Inge Morath, documenting an eighteen-day trip across the United States made with fellow Magnum photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson in 1960. The trip concluded with covering the filming of The Misfits, the motion picture starring Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe, in Reno, Nevada. Excerpts from Morath’s personal travel journal accompany the photographs which offer perspectives of America exotic even to most Americans.

The Road to Reno is a touring exhibition organized by the Inge Morath Foundation. Support for presentation of the exhibition at UMBC comes from an arts program grant from the Maryland State Arts Council, an agency funded by the State of Maryland and the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support comes from the Friends of the Library & Gallery.

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Exhibition Views

April 10 – May 27, 2007 

This exhibition showcases nineteenth and twentieth century photographs acquired by UMBC’s Photography Collections over the last decade. Founded in 1974, the Photography Collections now hold more than 2 million images along with cameras and a library of books on photography and related subjects.

Photographs by Bernice Abbott, Jim Amos, Thomas Annan, Ken Ashton, Gary Auerbach, Edward Bafford, Tom Baril, Thomas Barrow, A. Aubrey Bodine, Edouard Boubat, Marilyn Bridges, John G. Bullock, Kristen Capp, Clarence Carvel, Michela Caudill, Larry Clark, Harold Edgerton, Peggy Fox, Roland Freeman, Sally Gall, Ralph Gibson, John Gutman, Ralph Hattersly, Richard Jaquish, Erica Lennard, Jenny Lynn, Stephen Marc, Mary Ellen Mark, Jill Mathis, John Blair Mitchell, Joel Meyerowitz, Gilles Peress, John Pfahl, Elliot Porter, Thomas J. Reaume, Ed Ross, David Seltzer, Ted Serios, David Seymour, Eve Sonneman, Raymond H. Starr, Jr., Jaromir Stephany, Pete Turner, David Yager.

The presentation of this exhibition is supported by an arts program grant from the Maryland State Arts Council, an agency funded by the State of Maryland and the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support comes from the Friends of the Library & Gallery.

January 29 – March 24, 2007

Commemorate the centenary of Samuel Beckett, the leading twentieth century writer and dramatist, with Celebrating Samuel Beckett at 100. The Irish-born author, whose stirring texts in French and English were recognized by the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1969, is considered by some the best writer of English since Shakespeare and the greatest French playwright since Molière. 

Curated by Angela Moorjani, Emerita Professor of French and Intercultural Pragmatics, in association with the Library Gallery, this show presents Beckett’s words and images as filtered through the imaginative work of a number of visual and stage artists. On view are select photographs, etchings, artist books, and rare editions of Beckett’s works. 

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Public Program

4:00 – 5:30 p.m.
February 8, 2007

This public program will feature UMBC’s resident Beckettians: Xerxes Mehta, Angela Moorjani, and Wendy Salkind, in readings, performances, and discussions related to the works on display. 

Reception to follow 

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January 29 – March 23, 2007

The Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery is pleased to present Photographs of the Athenian Acropolis: The Restoration Project created by Socratis Mavrommatis, Chief Photographer of the Acropolis Restoration Service, documenting the interventions and transformations of Acropolis monuments since 1975. The exhibition, produced by the Acropolis Restoration Service of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture, opened in Athens at the renowned Benaki Museum in 2002, and has traveled to Brussels, Paris, Rome, and London. The North American tour is organized by the Thomas J. Walsh Gallery, Fairfield University. The presentation at UMBC is co-organized by Associate Professor Richard Mason, Ancient Studies Department, and the Library Gallery.

Concurrent with Photographs of the Athenian Acropolis: The Restoration Project is The Glory of Ruins on display in the Library Rotunda and curated by a group of eight students taking part in an Ancient Studies/Honors College internship. This exhibition displays nineteenth and twentieth century photographs depicting classical Athens and Attica, all from the Special Collections of the Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery.

The presentation of these exhibitions is supported by an arts program grant from the Maryland State Arts Council, an agency funded by the State of Maryland and the National Endowment for the Arts.  Additional support comes from the Friends of the Library & Gallery and the Ancient Studies Department.

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Public Program

4:00 p.m.
Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Exhibition Talk​: Katherine A. Schwab, Associate Professor of Art History at Fairfield University

Dr. Katherine A. Schwab will speak on The Parthenon East Metopes: Technologies of the 21st Century and New Discoveries.

Sponsored by the Humanities Forum with a reception to follow.

September 11 – December 10, 2006

Curated by Tom Beck and organized by the Library Gallery in collaboration with the Corcoran Museum of Art and the George Eastman House, the project provides the first real critical examination of imagery by the pioneering photojournalist David Seymour (Chim). This project will elevate the significance of work by Seymour, the least well-recognized master among the founders of Magnum Photos, and will better familiarize viewers with the symbolism and artistic roots of his imagery. A major publication on Seymour authored by Beck and published by Phaidon Press, Ltd. will accompany the show.

The exhibition is made possible by generous support from Ben Shneiderman. Additional support is provided by the Maryland State Arts Council, an agency funded by the State of Maryland and the National Endowment for the Arts, the Baltimore County Commission on Arts & Sciences, the Friends of the Library & Gallery, the Libby Kuhn Endowment, the Judaic Studies Program at UMBC, and Epson USA Inc.