Join us to kick off the winter season on Thursday, February 7, 6–8pm. This event is free and open to the public.
Presenting sixteen photographic series, spanning from 1876 to 2000, Destruction and Transformation examines the decisive role of vernacular photography in capturing the convulsive cycles of change that define modernist topographies. Since the nineteenth century, engineers, city planners, architects, industrialists, and tourists have used photography to record and promote metropolitanism: a global affirmation of modern urban expansion, often at the expense of natural ecology, historic structures, or existing populations.
Destruction and Transformation will be on view from February 8 to May 25, 2019, and is the fourth exhibition in The Walther Collection's multi-year series, "Imagining Everyday Life: Aspects of Vernacular Photography," curated by Brian Wallis.