CPAC Collection at CFAP, Fort Collins
Dec 1st, 2009 by blogmaster
Announcing our latest exhibition. Closing reception to take place Friday, February 5 in Fort Collins. Details below. We hope you can join us!
From the City: Works from the Collection of the Colorado Photographic Arts Center
December 4, 2009 – February 20, 2010
Closing reception: Friday, February 5, 5.00 – 9.00 pm
At The Center for Fine Art Photography, Inc.
(in the Poudre River Arts Center)
400 North College Avenue , Fort Collins, CO 80524
Artists: Berenice Abbott, Andre Kertesz, Edward R. Miller (above), Ralph Morgan, Winter Prather, Horst Schafer, R. Ewing Stiffler, Pavel Stecha, Max Yavno
From the City is a selection of works from the 600-print collection of the Colorado Photographic Arts Center. The group of nine artists includes several internationally renowned photographers. Berenice Abbot’s image of a NYC Milk Wagon and Horse, 1936, is from her Changing New York series made between 1935 and 1938. Max Yavno’s Powell Street, (1947), depicts a streetcar turnaround at the foot of one of San Francisco’s steepest and most crowded streets. Completing this selection of masterworks is Andre Kertecz’s Meudon, 1928, one of the most celebrated urban landscape photographs ever made.
A group of three images by the early-20th century photographer R. Ewing Stiffler (1888-1966) is also noteworthy. CPAC’s 2006 exhibition of works by this classic pictorialist was described as a “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity” by Westword critic Michael Paglia. Post-WWII documentary photographs from Japan and Iran by Edward R. Miller, and a series of abstractions by Winter Prather (1926-2005), who was a student of master-photographer Minor White, further display the range and depth of the CPAC collection.
Collectively the artists in From the City present a remarkable 20th century survey of people and places. And in this age of digital imagery, we are delighted to be able to write that all works in the show are vintage gelatin silver prints made from the original negatives.
Information: http://www.c4fap.org/ or 970.224.1010