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The Lens

The Lens is the FotoFocus editorial platform, highlighting our programming and featuring in-depth conversations on photography and the moving image drawn from perspectives and insights in our community, throughout our region, and around the globe.

The Taft Museum of Art Presents: Paris Night & Day

Posted on January 27, 2014

October 3, 2014–January 11, 2015 Fifth Third Gallery All works are from the collection of Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg. This exhibition was organized by art2art Circulating Exhibitions. Some of the greatest names in photographic history appear in Paris Night & Day, which features vintage prints by French nationals and international photographers who worked in Paris, including Eugène Atget, Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Brassaï, Ilse Bing, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Bill Brandt, André Kertész, and Man Ray. The exhibit comprises works ranging from the lingering realist perspective of the late 19th century, through modernist experiments in the early 20th, to the startling world of Surrealist photography in the 1930s. Lovers of photography... Continue

FotoFocus Presents: Michael Kenna

Posted on January 17, 2014

Wednesday March 5, 2014 7:00pmFath Auditorium, Cincinnati Art Museum953 Eden Park Drive, Cincinnati, Ohio 45202

Free and Open to the Public

Reservations are not required, but early arrival is recommended.Parking is free for Cincinnati Art Museum Members, $4 for non-members.

Reception

A public reception will immediately follow the lecture in the Great Hall.

About the Artist

Michael Kenna’s landscapes are unpopulated, simple, serene, and subtle. Often using very long exposures at night or dawn to soften the hard edge of reality, his minimalist images demand quiet attention from the viewer. Described as elegant, pure, and ephemeral, his work speaks eloquently to the strength of simple beauty.

Kenna’s small, quiet, black-and-white photographs... Continue reading FotoFocus Presents: Michael Kenna