"A building concentrates history in one spot; a photograph carries history around the world," said Joel Smith, curator of photography at the Princeton University Art Museum. "When these two forms of knowledge intersect, our historical imagination is ignited, whether we're looking at a site in Jerusalem in the nineteenth century or Manhattan's skyline in August of 2001."
Above: Richard Misrach, White Man Contemplating Pyramids, 1989. Princeton University Art Museum Gift of Paul Runyon, by exchange, and the artist. © Richard Misrach.
To highlight photography's unique historical voice, the exhibition also includes major works in other media, such as Gordon Matta-Clark's Splitting: Four Corners, a Yuan Dynasty painting for a seventh-century royal pavilion, and Richard McGuire's six-page comic Here (1989).
A building concentrates history in one spot; a photograph carries history around the world," said Joel Smith, curator of photography at the Princeton University Art Museum. "When these two forms of knowledge intersect, our historical imagination is ignited.
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