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Cantor Arts Center
328 Lomita Drive at Museum Way
Stanford, CA 94305-5060
Phone: 650-723-4177
Monday: 11AM–5PM
Tuesday: Closed
Wednesday: 11AM–5PM
Thursday: 11AM–8PM
Friday-Sunday: 11AM–5PM
About Face: Intimacy and Abstraction in Photographic Portraits
About Face: Intimacy and Abstraction in Photographic Portraits
November 1, 2017–March 4, 2018
Barbara Morgan (U.S.A., 1900–1992), Nancy Newhall, 1942. Gelatin silver print. Gift from the Alinder Collection. Copyright Barbara Morgan Archive, Courtesy Bruce Silverstein Gallery, NY, 1984.279
This exhibition considers the voyeuristic intimacy of the close-up portrait in thirteen photographs by celebrated photographers Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, John Gutmann, Barbara Morgan, and Edward Weston. Dating from the 1920s to the early 1940s, each striking photograph captures a likeness and the mood set by the subject’s personality. Taken in close proximity or cropped in the darkroom, they present their subjects in great detail but also allow passages of abstraction to emerge from the clean geometry of the compositions.
This exhibition is organized by the Cantor Arts Center. We gratefully acknowledge support from the Mark and Betsy Gates Fund for Photography.
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The Cantor Arts Center is located at the intersection of Museum Way and Lomita Drive in the heart of the arts district on the Stanford campus. The Cantor faces the Bing Concert Hall across Palm Drive, northwest of The Oval and the Main Quad.
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Parking is limited. Visitor parking is available on Lomita Drive and in a nearby parking structure at Roth Way and Campus Drive. On weekdays until 4PM visitors may use marked, metered spots. On weekdays after 4PM and all day on weekends, visitor parking is free and visitors may also use A and C permit spaces.