Photography 150 years: a selection from major exhibitions

A review of several retrospective exhibitions celebrating 150
Years of Photography, has led the author to discuss the place of
photography in the museum context. He makes a distinction
between 2 different exhibition concepts (and their related
notions about photography) - the ""Beaumont Newhall view''
(strongly related to the visual arts) and the ""John
Szarkowski's view'' (all photography can be Art). Exhibitions
discussed: ""Fotokunst 19e eeuw'' (Amsterdam), ""L'invention
d'un Regard'' (Paris), ""Histoire de Voir'' (Paris), ""20th
Century Photography'' (Amsterdam), ""L'invention d'un Art''
(Paris), ""The Photographic Museum of Auguste Grégoire'' (Gouda,
NL), ""The Art of Photography'' (London), ""Fotografi 150 år''
(Stockholm), ""On the Art of Fixing a Shadow'' (Chicago),
""L'insistenza dello sguardo, Fotografie Italiane 1839-1989''
(Venice), ""150 Ans de Photographie'' (Charleroi, B).


Citaten:
Szarkowski, J.: The Photographer's Eye (1966)
Galassi, P.: Before Photography (1981)
Phillips, Ch.: The Judgement Seat of Photography (October 1982 nr22)