Icons In Hand: Masterworks from a local collection at Vermont Center for Photography

This exhibition brings museum-caliber black-and-white photographs by many of photography’s greats right to Brattleboro. Drawn from a remarkable local collection, these prints invite you to get close—see the paper, the grain, the edge of the negative—and slow down with images that carry time and story across generations. It’s a chance to experience iconic photographs as objects, not just pictures on a screen: how they’re printed, toned, and cared for, and why those choices matter to what we see and feel.

The exhibition brings together 36 works by 31 artists, spanning nearly a century of photographic history, with dates ranging from 1916 to 2004. The selection highlights both silver gelatin and platinum prints, offering a rich material and historical range that underscores the enduring power and evolution of the photographic print

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The exhibition includes works by Ansel Adams, Dianne Arbus, Ruth Bernhard, Édouard Boubat, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Horace Bristol, Harry Callahan, Paul Caponigro, Judy Dater, Walker Evans, Leonard Freed, Lee Friedlander, Ralph Gibson, Emmet Gowin, André Kertész, Dorothea Lange, Nathan Lyons, Sally Mann, Robert Mapplethorpe, Mary Ellen Mark, Duane Michals, Arnold Newman, Ruth Orkin, Man Ray, Sebastião Salgado, Edward Steichen, George Tice, Jerry Uelsmann, John Vachon, Edward Weston, & Garry Winogrand.

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Merg Ross said:

Thank you for posting this. Wish I lived a bit closer!

I see a few names I was fortunate to have known and exhibited with during the mid-century years. That was a wonderful period to be engaged in the art of photography. Almost all have passed on, however Judy Dater is living and photographing here in the Bay Area.

Long live the art of making gelatin silver prints!

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