A View of One’s Own
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A View of One’s Own, American Academy in Rome
From 13 Ottobre 2016 to 27 Novembre 2016
Rome
Place: American Academy in Rome
Address: via Angelo Masina5
Times: Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays, 4pm-7pm
Responsibles: Lindsay Harris, Peter Benson Miller, Angela Piga
Ticket price: free entrance
Telefono per informazioni: +39 06 58461
E-Mail info: info@aarome.org
Official site: http://www.aarome.org
This event is part of the series New Work in the Arts & Humanities: American Classics.
This exhibition, drawn in part from the holdings of the Photographic Archive of the American Academy in Rome, features a selection of photographs by foreign women in Rome from three successive generations. Their work confronts aspects of the Eternal City and its urban transformation over more than a century, from the Belle Époque to the present day. At the same time, it tracks the emergence of photography as an independent medium wielded by women with distinctive viewpoints, as it evolved from a documentary aid to a vehicle for subjective, even gendered expression.
The protagonists are American archaeologist Esther Boise Van Deman, who photographed Rome and its surroundings in the 1910s; Georgina Masson, author of the classic guidebook, The Companion Guide to Rome, that has shaped foreigners’ experiences of Rome since the 1950s; and contemporary photographer Jeannette Montgomery Barron, whose images capture glimpses of Rome as seen by an American living abroad in the Eternal City, folding them into a wandering, meditative reverie. Seen in succession against a photographic landscape of Rome defined for the most part by men, these photographs posit another way of seeing the city’s history. Taken by female flâneurs, empirical observations of bricks and mortar progressively dissolve into pure, evanescent experience.
A View of One’s Own is curated by Lindsay Harris, Peter Benson Miller, and Angela Piga. It is part of La Quadriennale in città (16° Quadriennale d’Arte) and FOTOGRAFIA, Festival Internazionale di Roma.
The exhibition is made possible in part by Richard Baron and Adi Shamir Baron.
EXHIBITION EVENTS:
Inaugural Lecture
Zoe Strauss
The Photography and the City
13 October 2016
6pm, AAR Lecture Room
Lecture
Letizia Battaglia
The Photographer and the City
3 November 2016
6:30pm, AAR Lecture Room
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