Consuelo Kanaga: “Young Girl in Profile” (1948). The Howard Greenberg Collection.
The Howard Greenberg Collection at MFA Boston The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, presents the exhibition ‘Viewpoints: Photographs from the Howard Greenberg Collection’. From August 10 to December 14, 2019.]]>
Source: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
This exhibition presents 150 highlights from the Howard Greenberg Collection of Photographs, celebrating photography as an art form as well as a social, cultural and political force. Carefully assembled over more than three decades by former photographer and gallery dealer Howard Greenberg, the collection encompasses 446 works by 191 artists and was acquired by the MFA in 2018. “Viewpoints” showcases the breadth of these holdings, from European modernist masterpieces of the 1920s and ’30s to socially conscious works such as powerful visual testimonies of Depression-era America, politically engaged street photography, wartime photojournalism and compelling depictions of African American life from the 1930s through the Civil Rights movement.
Beginning with a selection of Greenberg’s particular favorites, including Consuelo Kanaga’s “Young Girl in Profile” (1948), the photographs in the exhibition are divided into seven themes: “Capturing Modernism”; “Picturing the City”; “Conflicts and Crises”; “Bearing Witness”; “Fleeting Moments”; “Defining Portraits”; and “Music, Fashion and Celebrity”. In addition to exploring the historical importance of the photographs on view, “Viewpoints” also highlights the material properties of these exceptional prints—in many cases, the earliest, first-ever or only print ever made, or the best existing example. Among the many photographers represented in the exhibition are Berenice Abbott, Margaret Bourke-White, Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans, Robert Frank, Consuelo Kanaga, Dorothea Lange, Gordon Parks, Edward Steichen and Weegee.
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