The City by Margaret Brennan
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Current Exhibitions
Jepson Center
Twilight Visions: Surrealism, Photography and Paris
June 11 - October 10, 2010Twilight Visions explores the city of Paris as the literal and metaphoric base of Surrealism, and examines the revolutionary social, cultural, aesthetic, and political activities and meanings of the movement during the 1920s and 30s. Over 100 works—mainly vintage photographs but also including films, books, and period ephemera—have been selected for their power to suggest [...]
Jepson Center
Soldier Portraits: Contemporary Wet Plate Collodion Photographs by Ellen Susan
April 10 - July 25, 2010Over the past several years, photographer Ellen Susan has been employing the 150-year-old collodion wet plate photographic process to create compelling portraits of active-duty members of the United States Army, many of them from the 3rd Infantry Division. This complex and rarely used photographic technique, which enjoyed great popularity during the Civil War era, creates [...]
Jepson Center
Philip Perkis: Fifty Years of Photographs
April 16 - September 19, 2010New York-based artist Philip Perkis is one of the country’s most widely respected photographers. In this exhibition of work spanning his fifty-year career, Perkis’ inimitable vision is brought to light. With a gift for capturing moments of heartbreaking honesty and unparalleled beauty, Perkis presents a world on the brink of transcendence.
These images, taken in the [...]
Telfair Academy
The Story of Silver in Savannah: Creating and Collecting since the 18th Century
March 6 - August 1, 2010This exhibition examines the important role Savannah played in the production and collection of silver in Georgia’s largest coastal city. With some exceptions, silver manufacturing in Savannah lasted approximately a century, from the second half of the 18th century to just before the Civil War. However, collecting the precious metal in its decorative form continues [...]