Hood exhibit examines cultural identity with photography
Zachary Ingbretsen / The Dartmouth Staff American photographer Eudora Welty once said that a good photograph stops a moment from "running away." The 45 photographs now on display in the "Focus on Photography: Works from 1950 to Today" exhibition at the Hood Museum of Art more than meet that standard, giving viewers a cross-sectional look at events and people from the past 60 years. The Hood has amassed 2,000 photographs and photo-based works over the last decade for use in its permanent collection. In anticipation of a major survey exhibition opening in September 2009, "Modern and Contemporary Art at Dartmouth," curator Emily Burke said she decided to put together a sampling of post-1950 photography to offer insight into the diversity, as well as the commonalities, of contemporary photography. "What [Burke] has done with this exhibition is brilliant," said photographer Subhankar Banerjee, the current artist-in-residence at the Hopkins Center.
