exhibits
The Visual Resources Collection curates two exhibits each year. Exhibits are on display in Sutton 3.128 and open to the public Monday-Friday, 8-5.
Past exhibits can be viewed in the Exhibit Archive.
Afterimage: Black and White Visions
photograph by Shelley Evans
Friday, February 17, 2012 to Friday, August 10, 2012
Exhibit Opening: February 28th, 2012, from 2-4pm in the Visual Resource Collection, Sutton 3.128
Students in Professor Judy Birdsong’s fall 2011 Vertical Studio took the images displayed in the Visual Resources Collection’s (VRC) spring-summer 2012 exhibit. Students designed and constructed their own pinhole cameras, and using either film negatives or silver-gelatin print paper, took photographs that they developed and printed in the School of Architecture Darkroom, a facility managed by the VRC.
Professor Birdsong notes that “The mechanism by which a pinhole camera operates is so rudimentary that its construction lends itself easily to modification and invention, as evidenced by the wide range of examples also included in this exhibit...Underscoring recurring themes of time and memory represented here, the imprecise nature of the pinhole can also lend a hazy quality to the photographs sympathetic to the elusive and incomplete images in our mind’s eye; and reinforces again the inevitable bond between medium and message.”
Illuminating Atmosphere and Materiality: Photographs by Wilfried Wang
St. Benedict Chapel, Sumvitg, Switzerland.
Peter Zumthor, 1987-1989.
Tuesday, September 13, 2011 to Friday, August 10, 2012
Images are on display through August 10, 2012 in Battle Hall.
Over two decades, Professor Wilfried Wang took thousands of slides with the robust single lens reflex camera (Leica SL2 either with the Zeiss Biogon 21mm wide angle lens or with the Vario-Elmar 14-50mm lens). Over the past few years, Professor Wang has been systematically donating his collection to the School of Architecture (SoA) Visual Resources Collection (VRC). The VRC has in turn been digitizing and cataloging the slides so that digital versions are available to SoA faculty and students to support teaching and research. The images on display in this exhibit include general and detailed views that capture atmosphere and the materiality of the built environment.
The VRC has partnered with ARTstor, a licensed image resource that includes over 1 million images supporting study in the humanities and social sciences, to make accessible Professor Wang's images of modern European and American architecture, with a special focus on museum architecture.
