San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Photographer videos and Interactive Features

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Photography Fun

Interactive features is a group of informative features dealing with several photographers in the collection at SFMOMA. Each interactive feature covers their images and may have a video and many other fun things to watch, listen and read about each photographer. Just click on the links in blue below for more. Well worth your time. Enjoy and play with each to get the most out of them!

Edward Weston

In his photographs Weston strove to capture the formal essence of his subject matter and present it as a revelation. Emphasizing line, careful cropping, and the interplay of shadows and light, Weston turned peppers, cabbages, egg slicers, rocks, and roots into objects of mystery and wonder.

This segment devoted to Weston’s life and work is part of the larger feature Voices and Images of California Art, which highlights 11 of California’s most celebrated artists through a combination of audio and video clips, artwork reproductions, photographs, and other documents.

 

Mexico as Muse: Tina Modotti and Edward Weston

Explore the lives of Tina Modotti and Edward Weston—two extraordinary 20th-century artists who shared a passion for photography, Mexico, and each other—and experience the vibrant cultural climate of Mexico that was both the inspiration for and the subject of their art. This interactive program includes film footage of Modotti and Weston, an interview with art historian Patricia Albers, and dozens of photographs and archival documents.

 

Tina Modotti’s Convent of Tepotzotlán, Mexico

Explore Tina Modotti’s photograph Convent of Tepotzotlán, Mexico in this segment from Making Sense of Modern Art, an extensive and engaging guide to modern and contemporary…

 

Imogen Cunningham

A founding member of Group f.64, Cunningham was a pioneer of sharp-focus “straight photography” — a style which would usher the the medium of photography into the modernist era.

 

Ansel Adams at 100

Explore the world of ideas behind Ansel Adams’s photography through archival footage of the artist at work, audio commentaries by art historians, and words from Adams himself.

 

Manuel Alvarez Bravo’s Dos pares de piernas

Explore Manuel Álvarez Bravo’s photograph Dos pares de piernas (Two Pairs of Legs) in this segment from Making Sense of Modern Art, an extensive and engaging guide to modern and contemporary works in SFMOMA’s permanent collection. The program’s rich-media format enables you to “zoom in” on full-screen details of individual artworks, explore excerpts from archival videos and films, and listen to commentary by artists, art historians, critics, and collectors.

 

Dorothea Lange

A prominent documentary photographer and photojournalist, Lange sought to demonstrate the impact of social and economic circumstances on people’s lives. Her best-known photographs put a human face on the tragic consequences of the Great Depression in 1930s America.

 

Jeff Wall: Works in Focus 1978–2004

Canadian artist Jeff Wall is widely recognized as an innovative picture-maker whose dynamic photographs, both color and black-and-white, have affinities with painting and cinema.…

 

Photography Overview and Highlights at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

One of the first museums to recognize photography as a legitimate art form, SFMOMA has been collecting and exhibiting photographs since 1935. Tracing the development of the medium from its invention in the 1830s to the present day, our photography collection comprises more than 14,000 pictures and is particularly well regarded for its concentrations of photographs related to California and the West, the European Avant-Garde, and American Modernism. Other areas of strength include Japanese photography, landscape photography, and a growing 19th-century collection. Dedicated to the examination of visual culture in all its forms, the department is notable for its active interest in collecting and exhibiting vernacular photography — anonymous snapshots, documentary evidence, and other photographic images never intended to be viewed as art. In addition to our full program of special exhibitions, we organize Picturing Modernity: Selections from the SFMOMA Collection, an ongoing presentation that reveals the medium’s transformation from a scientific invention into one of the most prevalent art forms of the modern era.

 

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