The Photo Review, a quarterly journal, was founded in 1976 in Philadelphia by the writer and photographer Stephen Perloff. The beginnings of The Photo Review coincided with a cultural moment where interest in photography swelled as a critically important medium in contemporary art as well as a significant force in the art market. Since that…
In 1975, as part of The Print Center’s 60th Anniversary, the Philadelphia artist Phil Simkin (1944 -2013) created a performative spectacle that generated so much attention and controversy that people are still talking about it. For Move It or Lose It, Simkin created a 60-foot moving clothesline on Latimer Street in front of The Print…
Michael Miller, Ski Feeder, 1974, Color lithograph, 18 x 20 inches, Edition of 40
Dolan was the Director from 1973 – 1978. In addition to mounting an impressive exhibition schedule, she focused efforts on strengthening membership, particularly by encouraging non-artists to join and by cultivating interactions between artists and collectors. Exhibitions were as frequent as twice a month, accompanied by at least two related events every month, one for…
Joe Goode, Untitled, 1973, Screenprint, 13 x 17 inches, Edition of 75
Retrospective exhibition of prints by Philadelphia artist Jerome Kaplan with accompanying catalog. [note]George Bunker and Ruth Fine, Jerome Kaplan Prints (Philadelphia: The Print Club, 1973)[/note] Jerome Kaplan Prints, 1973 Texts by George Bunker and Ruth Fine Softcover, 10″ x 7″, 32 pages See Timeline entry for 1994 Jerome Kaplan Graphic Works for more information and images. …
The Brandywine Workshop was founded in 1972 by Philadelphia artist Allan Edmunds, in a space that was originally a Prints in Progress workshop. Since that time, the Brandywine Workshop has become an internationally recognized center for printmaking, in particular for its dedication to offset lithography. The Brandywine Workshop has worked with dozens of significant Philadelphia…
Ansel Adams (1902 – 1984), the great master of landscape photography, exhibited at The Print Center in 1972. Planned to coincide with the artist’s seventieth birthday, Adams’ exhibition included 120 photographs and was the largest retrospective of his work to date. While photography had been included in shows at The Print Center as early as…
Daniel Dallman, Anthracite Winter, 1971, Lithograph, 30 x 22 inches, Edition of 40
The 1960s and 1970s was a time of transition in American art. Artists clamored for change, crossing boundaries previously drawn between art and popular culture. Photography played an active role in this period as artists who were not photographers, used the medium at the service of their ideas, while others addressed the nature of photographic…