Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Victorian Photocollage Exhibit

I found out about the wonderful exhibit of Victorian Photocollages that is at The Art Institute of Chicago via the website Retronuat. So exciting that this is the first exhibit of this kind of thing and the books that accompany it are the first scholarly look at photocollage in the Victorian era.




Sixty years ahead of the avant-garde—and more than a century before Photoshop—aristocratic Victorian women were already experimenting with photocollage. This world-premiere exhibition is the first to comprehensively examine this little-known phenomenon, presenting many eye-opening works that have rarely—and in many cases never—before been displayed or reproduced. (from the AIC website)






You can see more collages here. Hope all you folks near Chicago can go.

1 comment:

  1. Great stuff! I am going to be there, but it looks to me like this is an old exhibit, unless they've brought it back. I can't find it on their current calendar.

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