Baltimore Museum of Art: Photography of the 1960’s

The exhibit we went to knock against was a g allery passing game. It was an exhibit of pictures and the impostureists who produced the photos, and the intend of the photos. We enjoyed it because it was particularly raise how the 1960s was portrayed through photography. It showed not only white Americans unless African-Americans do it easily relatable. It showed hard times, fun times and how they made the hard times fun times. The strengths in the exhibit were the realistic ideas. These were some of the earliest photographs in history they werent just paintings or portrayal of the good keep in these times.You always read about history and what happened in what times, just now these photos in this exhibit showed it firsthand. A manage of the photos were open for interpretation. When you first walk into the exhibit a particular set of photos catch your eye. The photographer was Carrie Mae Weems, and the photos were authorize From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried along wi th House/ subject area/Yard/Kitchen. The photos were red and appeared to be African American slaves. Each had a word on top of it house, subject, yard or kitchen and on all(prenominal) side of the sets of photos appears to be an African woman with the text I Cried.Weems precious it to be interpreted as the racial oppression and suffering. She also valued it to be reinterpreted by the generations. We saw it as how far African-Americans had come along while others in the past may have seen it as wistful and dreary because of everything African-Americans went through to get where they are now. A weakness of the exhibit, in our opinions which can be debated was the experimentation with photography. Although it may seem interesting to a few, a stabbed up, burned up paper did not exactly paroxysm in with the ideas of the other photos.Photographer Marco Breur in his photo Shot (C-917) used gum guns, blow torches and razor blades to photosensitive paper. It was a unique work of art an d as he aimed cannot be reproduced but took away from the actual meaning of the photography in this exhibit which was to emphasize the times and living in the 1960s. This exhibit can relate a lot to what we have recently been learning in class. It can also relate to past readings. This photography shows things from slavery all the way out to liberalism.There were also a lot of photos displaying gender roles. There is a photo of a house with legs and high gear heels. It was entitled, The Walking House. This photo can be interpreted many an(prenominal) ways. The photographer Laurie Simmons was trying to display that women in this time were inseparable to their house servant roles at home. Even though this exhibit was entitled, Photography of the 1960s a lot of the photos displayed the changing of generations. It went from slavery up until the 1970s. It was a very interesting exhibit.We observed all the people who were around us. It wasnt only field trips of academics people actuall y came to the museum just to see this particular exhibit. We would recommend it to others but only this exhibit. Although it wasnt required after we viewed this exhibit we explored the rest of the museum and it was boring. It was all statues and artifacts from different countries. This particular exhibit explored American History. It wasnt just text edition reading and lectures, we got to view it and interpret it as if we were there.