THE SENSE OF ABSTRACTION: PHOTOGRAPHY SHOW AT MUSEUM OP MODERN ART
"The Sense of Abstraction, "an exhibition demonstrating a major trend in contemporary photography, will be on view at the Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53 Street, February 17 through April 10.
Selected from hundreds of portfolios recently submitted to the Department of Photography, the show consists of 300 photographs in color and in black and white.
The 75 contributing photographers are American, French, German, Japanese, Polish, Swedish, and Swiss.
Grace Mayer and Kathleen Haven are co-Directors of the show. Miss Haven also designed the installation.
According to the Directors, the many techniques and devices apparent in the exhibition are not new. What is significant is the fresh surge of interest in using familiar tools of the photographic medium to produce works whose 6ole function is to delight - or affront - the eye.
Among the many camera and darkroom techniques involved are condensation, solarization, photomontage, the photogram, multiple image and the "straight" photograph.
The work is in three categories: that of photographers who limit themselves to the experimental or avant garde; occasional abstraction; produced as a stimulating exercise; the "accidental" abstraction in which reportage is transformed through a strong sense of design.
Val Telberg Group Show MOMA 1960
