Riding the 33rd Parallel is a virtual road trip from Florida to California via the Harn’s Photography Collection. Forty-eight photographs by twenty-two photographers were made along the 33rd parallel (more or less) encompassing Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, and California. Work by seven new photographers...
Opening in the Harn’s Rubin Photography Gallery is a “first” for the museum: a staff curated exhibition. Thirty-four staff members volunteered to choose a favorite photograph from the collection and write about it from their own perspective. In all, forty photographs (some chose two) with individual texts will be exhibited...
The Same But Different celebrated the Harn’s growing photography collection. It highlighted over 90 photographs by 58 photographers arranged in 13 themes. The photographs in each theme shared a visual or conceptual component that was then interpreted through the unique sensibilities of each artist. Like a good short story, the images acted like words in a...
VAST: Sea Salt Sand Sky featured over seventy photographs by acclaimed New York artist Joni Sternbach. They picture the sublime vastness of ocean, sky and desert captured on film, and produced as cyanotype, platinum/palladium, gelatin silver or pigment prints and video. VAST also included Sternbach’s most celebrated series, Surfland, a mesmerizing array of surfer portraits (some...
Faces|Places celebrates the Harn’s growing photography collection. It highlights fifty-five photographs, several seen here for the first time. The exhibition takes us on a global tour through photographs that describe the look and feel of places, and the specificity of bodies and faces from around the world. Spanning eras, cultures, and...
In conjunction with the Harn’s 25th Anniversary celebration, NEXUS: Experimental Photography in Florida – Uelsmann, Fichter, Prince, Streetman & Walker takes a look at the long, prosperous careers of five key members of the UF Photography Department Faculty during the 1960s and 70s. It explores the innovative imagery produced by Robert Fichter, Doug...
Sixty-six photographs by Michael Kenna depict nature and the manmade from countries around the world. A haiku is a simple Japanese poem reduced to three lines that address impressions of nature. Appreciative of Japanese culture, acclaimed photographer Michael Kenna photographs landscapes and familiar cities through a simplified lens. Finding dramatic...
Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) was among the most photographed women of her generation. What photographers found intriguing was her uninhibited humor and charm, overt sensuality and rare beauty and style. She was not shy before the camera. As one admirer noted, “Frida regularly invented and recreated herself with intelligence and verve.”...
I, Too, Am America: Civil Rights Photographs by Steve Schapiro features forty-eight photographs from the late 1950s/1960s Civil Rights Movement. The exhibition is curated by Harn Curator of Photography, Carol McCusker, in collaboration with photojournalist Steve Schapiro. The exhibition title comes from a poem by Langston Hughes. The exhibition has three...
CENTURY features thirty-eight new photographs added to the Harn’s permanent collection in the last two years. They are by celebrated photographers such as Lewis Hine, André Kertész, Laura Gilpin, Walker Evans, Helen Levitt, Eudora Welty, W. Eugene Smith, Larry Burrows and Danny Lyon. Laid out chronologically, the exhibition, when viewed as...
