Capturing the Moment: Photographs from the Marie Brenner and Ernest Pomerantz Collection

February 22 - May 12,2019

"Capturing the Moment celebrates a major gift of over five hundred photographs from collectors Marie Brenner and Ernest Pomerantz and features approximately seventy primarily black-and-white photographs and a selection of films. The exhibition will be divided into three sections: people; war and conflict; and landscapes (rural and urban). It will explore key practices such as straight, street, documentary, and photojournalist photography and highlight the technological advancements, socio-political upheavals, and cultural influences that motivated the era’s artistic innovation."

Artist talk: April 30, 2019 | 12-12 am

Reading: April 30, 2019 | 6-8 pm
Free Event: Jim LaVilla-Havelin, pairs of poets and photographers from San Antonio will present readings and responses to selections from the exhibition

Lecture: May 10, 2019 | 6-7 pm
Presented by John Rohrbach, PhD, Senior Curator of Photographs at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art

San Antonio Museum of Art 200 W Jones Avenue
San Antonio, TX 78215
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