The Phillips Collection
The Phillips Collection is an exceptional collection of modern and contemporary art in a dynamic environment for collaboration, innovation, engagement with the world, scholarship, and new forms of public participation. (Photo Credit - Left: Lynn Davis, Iceberg XI, Disko Bay, Greenland, 2004. Gelatin silver print, 36 x 36 in., Right: Richard Misrach, Battleground Point #14, 1999. Chromogenic dye coupler print, 20 x 24 in. © Richard Misrach, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, Marc Selwyn)
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Contact: The Phillips Collection 202-387-2151 x235
1600 21st Street NW , Washington, DC 20009
www.phillipscollection.org
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Picturing the Sublime: Photographs from the Joseph and Charlotte Lichtenberg Collection
Exhibitions
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 Eleven photographs document how artists use the camera to capture the sublime beauty and human destruction of the natural world. The exhibition brings together iconic works by Ansel Adams and Josef Koudelka; contemporary examples by Edward Burtynsky, Lynn Davis, and Richard Misrach; and 19th-century pictures by Francis Frith and Carleton Watkins.
ADMISSION – weekends: $12 for adults, $10 for visitors 62 and over and students, free for members and visitors 18 and under; weekdays: by donation
Thumbnail: Richard Misrach, Battleground Point #14, 1999. Chromogenic dye coupler print, 20 x 24 in. © Richard Misrach, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles and Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York October 11 2012 11:00 AM - January 13 2013 06:00 PMAdmission : http://blog.phillipscollection.org/2012/10/13/picturing-the-sublime/ $12.00 Admission The Phillips Collection , 1600 21st Street, NW Washington, DC 20009, Northwest (202) 387-2151 LOCATION MAP |
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Curator's Perspective Picturing the Sublime: Photographs from the Joseph and Charlotte Lichtenberg
Lectures
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 Exhibition curator Susan Behrends Frank discusses how photographers such as Ansel Adams, Edward Burtynsky, and Carleton Watkins use the camera to capture the sublime beauty and human destruction of the natural world.
ADMISSION – By donation
(Thumbnail credit: Lynn Davis, Iceberg XI, Disko Bay, Greenland, 2004. Gelatin silver print, 36 x 36 in) November 15 2012 06:30 PM - November 15 2012 07:30 PMAdmission : http://www.phillipscollection.org/events/2012-11-15-curators-perspective-lichtenberg.aspx  The Phillips Collection , 1600 21st Street, NW Washington, DC 20009, Northwest (202) 387-2151 LOCATION MAP |