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Silver Images: The Photography Collection at 25
November 5, 2001 through August 15, 2004
Alice and Sol B. Frank Photography Galleries

Roger Fenton (English, 1819-1869) The Wharfe and Pool Below the Strid, Bolton Abbey, ca. 1854-58 Albumen print Gift of the Mowbray Arch Society, 2000

This exhibition celebrates the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Chrysler’s photography program. Since opening the Sol B. Frank Photography Gallery in November 1978 the Museum has built a collection of approximately 4,000 photographs and has displayed more than 100 photography exhibitions. The single gallery has grown to five, and has been renamed the Alice R. and Sol B. Frank Photography Galleries and the David L. Hack Gallery. Silver Images will feature more than 100 works drawn entirely from the Chrysler’s notable photography collection.

This special exhibition surveys the entire history of the medium from the earliest techniques such as daguerreotypes and calotypes to the most recent mixed media and digital images. Among the photographers included are such names as William Henry Fox Talbot, Gustave Le Gray, Ansel Adams, Paul Strand, Walker Evans, Mary Ellen Mark, Sally Mann, Nancy Burson, and Christian Boltanski.

For More Information or Images Please Contact the Chrysler at (757) 664-6200 or museum@chrysler.org

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