Merry A. Foresta
Autore di At First Sight: Photography and the Smithsonian
Sull'Autore
Merry Foresta is senior curator of photography at the Smithsonian Institution.
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1950
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Istruzione
- Cornell University (B.A.|1977|M.A.|1981)
- Attività lavorative
- Curator
- Organizzazioni
- Smithsonian
- Breve biografia
- Currently an independent curator and arts adviser, Merry Foresta was the founding director of the Smithsonian Photography Initiative from 2000 to 2010. Previously, she had served in the department of 20th century art at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. She was named the museum’s first curator of photography in 1982 and subsequently was appointed senior curator of photography in 1992. In 2000, she was appointed Director of the Smithsonian Photography Initiative, a web-based, multi-disciplinary project about photography in Smithsonian collections. During this time, Foresta also taught at a number of Washington, D.C. area universities and colleges.
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Tina Barney: The Europeans di Merry Foresta
The social class that Tina Barney photographs might well be called the flaky upper crust. Originally part of that culture herself, Barney started out making pictures of her own tony family, then other American Eastern seaboard swells, and now she turns her lens on a Grand Tour of European grand dames and hommes. Theatrically posed, but catching the intruding serendipitous gesture, her pictures are at once distant and intimately funny, Olympian and down-to-earth, imperious and impetuous. A young man in gold-bedecked bullfighting regalia poses before a sumptuous curtain, his hauteur faintly ridiculous outside of the bullring. A French father leans a little too hard on an heirloom chair, while his son beside him seems to wipe his nose in a decidedly undignified way.… (altro)
I love pages 49, 62, 122-3. Interesting book!
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- 15
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- 401
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- #60,558
- Voto
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- Recensioni
- 2
- ISBN
- 25