The Shadow Archive: An Investigation Into Vernacular Portrait Photography – The Eye of Photography

—

by

Trent
in

[contentcards url=”http://loeildelaphotographie.com/en/2018/01/05/article/159976926/the-shadow-archive-an-investigation-into-vernacular-portrait-photography/”]

The Shadow Archive: An Investigation Into Vernacular Portrait Photography – The Eye of Photography

The Shadow Archive: An Investigation Into Vernacular Portrait Photography is an exhibition at The Walther Collection in New York that examines the uses of photography to document, record, and identify individuals from the 1850s to the present. The Shadow Archive inaugurates the collection multi-year series of exhibitions focused on the history of vernacular photography—utilitarian imagery made primarily for commercial or personal purposes, rather than aesthetic ones.