Events at Reed

Ongoing through May 10, 2015

Cooley Gallery Exhibition: E.O. Hoppé: Studio, Society, and Street Photography, 1909–1945

Tuesday–Sunday, Noon–5 p.m., Cooley Gallery, Hauser Library

Emil Otto Hoppé (1878–1972) was one of the most important art and documentary photographers of the modern era, and his artistic accomplishments rivaled those of his peers, Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946), Edward Steichen (1879–1973), and Walker Evans (1903–1975). The exhibition includes vintage prints that reveal the breadth of his interests and travels and his intimate relationship with the Ballets Russes and the era's most accomplished writers and artists. It marks the rediscovery of Hoppé as a pivotal figure in modernist art. Drawn from the collections of the National Portrait Gallery and the E.O. Hoppé Archive in Pasadena, California, the exhibition brings together the best known prints of each photograph. After decades of lying dormant in the Mansell Collection in London—where they were virtually unknown, due to the fact that they were filed by subject and bore the name Dorien Leigh Ltd., Hoppé’s later business name—these prints are now being made accessible to the public for the first time. E. O. Hoppé: Society, Studio, and Street Photographs, 1909–1945 was organized by the National Portrait Gallery, London, and Curatorial Assistance Traveling Exhibitions (CATE), Pasadena, California. In addition, a rotating selection of contemporary portraiture is exhibited alongside Hoppé's photography, beginning with the work of Storm Tharp, followed by the work of Cindy Sherman, Janine Antoni, Peter Simensky, and Marc Joseph Berg. More on the Cooley Gallery.  [Image: E.O. Hoppé, “Vaslav Nijinsky as the Spectre in Le Spectre de la Rose,” 1914; vintage hand-colored photogravure ©2015, The Estate of E.O. Hoppé and Curatorial Assistance, Pasadena, California.]
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