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Art-at-Lunch: Subverting Photographic Vision: Henry Koerner, Honoré Sharrer and the Camera

Presented by Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)

October 13, 2010

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Join PAFA staff and students for this series of talks on American art and culture every Wednesday at noon. Enjoy discussions and lectures with scholars and artists covering a variety of topics related to PAFA's exhibitions, collections, and areas of interest. Visitors are encouraged to bring a bagged lunch, though limited options will be available for sale outside the Auditorium doors. Photography has been integral to the way artists approach various movements, from Thomas Eakins' realism to Georgia O'Keeffe's abstractions. Robert Cozzolino, PAFA's Curator of Modern Art, discusses how the so-called "magic realist" artists in the 1940s and 1950s worked from a combination of photography, found newspaper sources, and reproductions of art to produce uncanny images that look neither photographic nor academic in their presentation of recognizable imagery. Using the work of Henry Koerner and Honore Sharrer, he illustrates how these artists attempted to overcome the "objective" eye of photography by taking liberties with reality and subverting audience expectation.