A sweeping look at 20th-century photography from over 50 artists in “Presence” at the Norton Museum of Art.
The collection of Judy Glickman Lauder at the Norton Museum of Art lends itself to a sweeping narrative of 20th-century photography, featuring over 110 photographs by 50-plus artists. Capturing a story of humanity from the last hundred years, the exhibition “Presence” has been divided into four conceptual sections, including “Portraits, Admiration, and Delight,” “Politics, Labor, and Justice,” “Specters of History,” and “Expressions of Place.” Featured in the show are ’s 1942 image American Gothic (Portrait of Ella Watson), Washington, DC, Richard Avedon’s portrait of Marilyn Monroe from 1957, Glickman Lauder’s own images documenting former Nazi labor camps, and photographs by the likes of Alma Lavenson, Graciela Iturbide, Nan Goldin, and Irving Bennett Ellis.
