The Serial Portrait: Photography and Identity in the Last One Hundred Years (UNITED STATES)

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From: 30 Sep 2012 - To: 31 Dec 2012

The Serial Portrait: Photography and Identity in the Last One Hundred Years
Category: Exhibitions
Organized by: National Gallery of Art
Venue: National Gallery of Art
Address: West Building, Ground Floor, 6th Street & Constitution Avenue
Town: Washington, DC
Opening hours: 10 am - 5 pm (Sunday 11 am - 6 pm)
Cost of entry: free
Website: www.nga.gov/serial

Since the introduction of photography in 1839, portraiture has been one of the most widely practiced forms of the medium. At the turn of 19th to 20th century some artists began to question whether a single image could adequately capture the complexity of an individual. Could an individual be portrayed from different perspectives and could it look completey different depending on which perspective was taken by the photographer. Arranged both chronologically and thematically, the exhibition features 153 works by 20 artists who photographed the same subjects - friends, family, and themselves - over the course of days, months, years to create some of the most provocative and revealing portraits of their time.

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