Series: Art
Opening Reception Date: Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Time: 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Venue: Cecil & Ida Green Center

Exhibition dates: October 31 - December 13, 2008

Ticket Prices: Free

Curated by Ph.D. candidate Diane McGurren

The second exhibition of works from the Comer Collection, Social/Scene includes photographs by June Van Cleef, Danny Lyon, Bernice Abbott, Laura Calfee, Paula Chamlee, Arthur Leipzig, Duane Michals, and Marion Post Wolcott. Though each of the photographs in the collection represents a different period in our shared social history, the works in this exhibition come together to foster our re-examination of this history. From mid-west landscapes and north-east cityscapes to the eccentricities of rural southern culture, Social/Scene creates a dialogue between the past and the present, man and his environment, social norms and social scenes.

Lecture by Lorraine Davis
November 12, 7:30 pm, Visual Arts Building, AS 1.105
Lorraine Davis is Director of Vintage and Contemporary Photography,
Heritage Auction Galleries. The topic of her lecture is "The Famous, the Infamous, the Anonymous: A History of Portraiture in Photography."

About the Comer Collection:

The Jerry and Marilyn Comer Photography Collection contains almost 100 photographs and includes important examples representative of mid- to late 20th century American photography. Highlights of the collection include examples of documentary photography and photojournalism, including images of the Civil Rights movement, modern and contemporary American landscape photography, and postmodern photography. In addition, over 150 books and 200 periodicals provide a resource for research on modern and contemporary art and photography. The acquisition of this photography collection contributes to the university's mission, in terms
of facilitating exhibitions to augment undergraduate instruction and graduate level research at The University of Texas at Dallas.