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The Sun. It’s an essential part of our everyday lives and of our modern image-making technologies that it often goes unnoticed--or becomes an unexamined cliché. To coincide with The Sun Placed in the Abyss exhibition, we challenged photographers to respond to several creative challenges. We asked photographers to tag their…
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Noted British Landscape painter Joseph Turner was a devotee of sun-staring or sun-gazing, which involves staring with the naked eye directly at the sun. Scientists had previously used the camera obscura to protect against the blinding brightness of the sun. Turner directly confronted it. Like Turner, many artists in The…
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Our Photo Hunt Challenges are back! CMA Photo Hunts are a digital complement to CMA collections and exhibitions, give participants an opportunity to flex their creativity, be inspired by works or themes in Columbus Museum of Art exhibitions or collections, and respond to creative challenges leveraging the power of social…
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On August 12, 2016 in Paris artist Jean Cocteau armed with 4 rolls of film and a recently introduced portable Kodak camera set out to photograph Picasso, and their circle of friends, which included Modigliani, poet Max Jacob, actress Emilienne Greslot, and poet and critic André Salmon, among others. The…
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Columbus Museum of Art presents our fifth exhibition of mobile photography. It's all part of our ongoing CMA Photo Hunt project, a social campaign to connect mobile photographers to art and each other. @mikhmisho, a gallery assistant from Cleveland in front of one of three of…
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This last mobile photography challenge delves into yet another style featured in our Modern Dialect exhibition. Get inspired by this Modernist American art exhibition, then respond with your take on the sixth challenge in the series: Capture something that reflects Portraiture using Clarence Holbrook Carter's Down the River painting as…
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