LECTURES & LITERATURE

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

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

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

    February 10, 2010


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    As a sneak peek into an exhibition in progress, Robert Cozzolino, PAFA's Curator of Modern Art discusses how realist artists in the 1940s and 1950s worked from a combination of photography, found newspaper sources, life, reproductions of art, and the imagination to produce uncanny images that look neither photographic nor academic in their presentation of recognizable imagery. Taking liberties with reality and subverting audience expectations of realist imagery, artists such as Henry Koerner and Honoré Sharrer produced images that attempt to overcome the "objective" eye of photography.


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      • Venue Info

        Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)

        118 & 128 N. Broad Street
        Philadelphia, PA 19102

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      • Admission Info

        Tickets: Free

        Info Phone: 215-972-7600

      • Dates & Times

        Dates:
        February 10, 2010

        Times:
        Noon-1 pm

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