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Keeping Shadows Photography at the Worcester Art Museum
David Acton
It is by no means impossible to see the art of the photographer as a more purely aesthetic process than photographer as a more purely aesthetic process than that of the painter, unconfused as the former is by problems of representation.
Keeping Shadows presents the rich history of photography chronicled by the collection of the Worcester Art Museum, one of the first institutions in the United States to exhibit photography as fine art. In addition to a comprehensive survey of the development and history of photography in the United States, Keeping Shadows features the Museum’s noteworthy holdings of French, German, British, and Soviet photographs. The book also considers many of the photographers of central New England during the Pictorial era and the twentieth century, and includes a glossary that provides a valuable introduction to the art of photography for a broad audience. David Acton has been curator of prints and drawings at the Worcester Art Museum since 1986 and has served as curator of photographs since 1996. He is also the author of A Spectrum of Innovation: Color in American Printmaking 1890–1960 and The Stamp of Impulse: Abstract Expressionist Prints. Stephen B. Jareckie was instrumental in building the Museum’s outstanding collection of photographs in his role as curator of photography until his retirement in 1996. Ben Charland is a curatorial assistant at the Museum.
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