The Victorian Album, the Feminine and the Personal

The Victorian Album, the Feminine and the Personal

Opens next Saturday 8 October 2011 :: Friday night talk 7 October 6pm

All welcome
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2011 21:19:04 +0000

Alongside Behind Closed Doors the Adam Art Gallery is staging a changing programme of projects titled: in camera: a project series around and about collecting. Located in one room of the Adam Art Gallery, the Kirk Gallery, this series illuminates other personal acts of collecting.

Part 4 of in camera

8 October–13 November 2011

The Victorian Album, the Feminine and the Personal
Curated by Sandy Callister
Visiting Scholar at the Stout Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington

During the Victorian era, photography became remarkably popular and accessible, stimulated in part by the technological innovation of the carte-de-visite process. This exhibition will examine the way in which New Zealand women utilised this new medium, presenting work that has rarely—and in many cases never—been displayed or reproduced, to provide a fascinating window into Pakeha and Māori women’s experience of modernity and the complex cultural interweavings of late colonial society.

OPENING:
Friday 7 October 2011, 6pm
Exhibition curator Sandy Callister will give a short floor talk of the exhibition accompanied by refreshments.
All welcome.

in camera: a project series around and about collecting:
LAST WEEK
Leonid Tishkov and Boris Bendikov, Private Moon closes this Sunday 2 October 2011.

FORTHCOMING
19 November–18 December 2011
Shadowgraphs: Photographic portraits by Len Lye
Curated by Professor Geoffrey Batchen and his Art History Honours students

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