Peng Yi, Illustration for Children of the Tsaatan Reindeer Herders / 驯鹿人的孩子 / xùn lù rén de hái zi (Jieli Publishing House). Collection of Peng Yi. © 2018 Peng Yi.
Members' Preview for CLICK! Photographers Make Picture Books
Free for Museum members and donors
Join us for an exclusive viewing of this fascinating exhibition. Visionary photographer-illustrators from Edward Steichen and William Wegman to Dare Wright, Mo Willems, Tana Hoban, Charles R. Smith Jr, and Walter Wick have long trained their camera eye with young people in mind. Their work reveals the hidden beauty of our everyday surroundings, makes the fantastic seem real in artfully choreographed collages and staged photos, and documents the amazing diversity of life on our planet. Eighty archival photo prints and a selection of rare children’s books from the 1890s onward put this vibrant, under-explored strand of children’s book art into eye-opening sharp focus.
The Preview will begin at 5:30 with hors d’oeuvres in the Great Hall. From 6:30 - 7:30 pm guests will be treated to a conversation in the Auditorium with Guest Curator Leonard S. Marcus and a number of artists whose work is in the exhibition, including Nina Crews, Susan Kuklin, Rita Marshall, Shelley Rotner, Freyman Saxton, Charles R. Smith, Jr., Walter Wick, and Isabel Ancona on behalf of her father George Ancona. The evening will conclude at 8:00 pm and CLICK! will be open to the public the following day.
Curated by Leonard S. Marcus.
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