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Thursday, February 19, 1987/The J-TAC/Page 3
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By DONNA GRAYSON
Contributor
Those who are interested in photo-
journalism are in for a real treat if
they visit the Amon Carter Museum.
In the 25 years since it opened in
1961, the museum has developed
one of the country's outstanding col-
lections of American photography
and earned a national reputation for
• its photographic exhibitions and
publication.
The museum now has a special ex-
hibit on the great achievements of
W. Eugene,Smith.
Smith's photographic essays have
been published in major magazines
such as Life and Look. The special
exhibit of over one hundred master
prints are on loan from the W,
Eugene Smith Archive at the Center
for Creative Photography, Univer-
sity of Arizona.
Smith's photographic essays
established a new mode of in-depth,
concerned, and humanistic photo-
journalism. His ambition, he wrote
■>t. when he was 18, was to create "a
true picture, uriposed and real." He
wrote that he didn't take pictures for
the joy of taking them, but like many
of the old masters of the paints, he
wanted them to be symbolic of
something. Smith's pictures cause
those who study them to want to do
more.
His photographs of Albert
Schweitzer's leper colony at Lam-
barene, West Africa, present the
flow of daily village life, the
humorous along with the dreadful.
His Pittsburgh series shows the ci-
ty as.a living entity; from the sweat
and glare on workman's faces, to
people lounging on summer streets,,
to the very smoke, steam, and soot
which meant prosperity.
Smith's photographs of WWII in
the Pacific reveal the horror,
sadness, and anonymity of unburied
corpses, the exhaustion of troops,
and the desolation of civilians whose
lives have been irreparably altered.
Another exhibition, the Looking at
America: Documentary Photographs
From The 1930s and 1940s provid-
ed "truthful" evidence about the
, country's condition, told human in-
terest stories, or advocated social
reform, proved a powerful form of
communication.
The original Rullell and Rem-
. ington paintings that formed the core
of the Museum's original collection
did not include photographs. But
shortly after the Museum opened it
acquired its first photographic print
and the collection has been growing
> ever since. It now numbers nearly
250,000 and photographic prints and
negatives.
The collection spans the history of
American photography from early
1840s to the present, the emphasis
is on work done prior to 1950. Ear-
ly highlights of the collection include
the California Gold Rush of 1849
and the Mexican War of 1846-48.
The Civil War is also represented in
the collection.
The Museum also has a particular-
ly strong collection of early Twen-
tieth century pictorial photographs,
done in moody, soft focus. This was
adopted by photographers who
wanted to prove that photographs
made with the aid of a camera could
be as expressive as the "pictures"
made by painters and other artists.
The collection of pictorial work is
highlighted by the estates of
photographers Karl Struss and Clars
Sipprell and the early work contain-
ed in the estate of Laura Gilpin.
The Museum's collection em-
braces descriptive photo documents
and abstract photographic studies;
works by well-known artists and
unknown photographers; pictures by
people who devoted a lifetime to this
craft, and photographs by artists like
Thomas Eakins or Charles Sheeler,
who worked primarily in other
media. In looking for new work to
add to the collection the Museum
looks only for excellence in quality
and expression.
The Museum had a fantastic ex-
hibition of paintings, photographs,
and Western bronze sculptures.
The photography class of Tarleton
advised by Journalism Instructor
Mark Grear visited the Museum
Thursday, December 12. Several
students commented on their favorite
series.
"Smith's photographs of the
nurse-midwife were very touching.
Sometimes we forget the poverty and
'bare necessity' living conditions
blacks in this country lived with. In
contrast, his series of Ku Klux Klan
photos showed the other side of the
coin, the anger and power of secret
society in America," said Becky
Styles,
"The expose on a Japanese
mother bathing her deformed
teenage daughter, a victim of mer-
cury poisoning from industrial pro-
duction was very moving," said
David Gontarek and Nicki Zarris.
"There was an expose on WWII
that I thought captured the realities
of war," said Patti Browning.
"The pictures on Haiti/were quite
fascinating," said Tammy Wilson.
The bronze exhibits and the pain-
tings were Thomas Hill's favorite.
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