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The Dazzling Instant

Eclipse solar / Solar Eclipse, © 1991, Antonio Turok

AUGUST 22 – DECEMBER 11, 2011 
THE DAZZLING INSTANT

A WITTLIFF COLLECTIONS 25TH ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION

Presenting 95 images by 70 photographers, this Wittliff Collections anniversary exhibition was inspired by Henri Cartier-Bresson, who wrote, “The photograph is a guillotine blade that seizes one dazzling instant in eternity.” Each photograph on display can be seen as a powerful or poetic moment, including such classics as Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico by Ansel Adams, Watching the Dancers by Edward Curtis, Portrait of the Eternal by Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Dorothea Lange’s “Migrant Mother,” and Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima by Joe Rosenthal. This exhibition also spotlights the 12 volumes in the Wittliff’s Southwestern & Mexican Photography Book Series published primarily by UT Press, with prints by Kate Breakey, Keith Carter, Graciela Iturbide, Jayne Hinds Bidaut, Josephine Sacabo, Rocky Schenck, Bill Wittliff, and others.

FEATURING: Ansel Adams | Lola Álvarez Bravo | Manuel Álvarez Bravo | Yolanda Andrade | Jayne Hinds Bidaut | Lázaro Blanco | Ave Bonar | Jim Bones | Boystown | Kate Breakey | Paul Caponigro | Manuel Carrillo | Keith Carter | Henri Cartier-Bresson | John Christian | Marco Antonio Cruz | Edward Curtis | Dennis Darling | Faustinus Deraet | James Evans | Héctor García | Flor Garduño | Laura Gilpin | Maya Goded | F.A. Hartwell | Jesse Herrera | Robin Renee Hix | Kati Horna | Earlie Hudnall, Jr | Graciela Iturbide | David Johndrow | David Michael Kennedy | Dorothea Lange | Russell Lee | John Lewis | Nacho López | O. Rufus Lovett | Lee Marmon | Luis Márquez | Alondra Nayeli Martínez Rosas (Mi Pueblo: The Pozos Children’s Project) | Eniac Martínez Ulloa | Francisco Mata Rosas | Richard Misrach | Rodrigo Moya | Michael O’Brien | Pablo Ortiz Monasterio | Robert & Shana ParkeHarrison | Alan Pogue | Joe Rosenthal | Ken Rosenthal | Arthur Rothstein | Josephine Sacabo | Joel Salcido | Sebastião Salgado | Rocky Schenck | Richard Speedy | Cathy Spence | Jack Spencer | Paul Strand | J.A. Stryker | Ángeles Torrejón | Antonio Turok | Kathy Vargas | Bob “Daddy-O” Wade | Edward Weston | Laura Wilson | Geoff Winningham | Bill Wittliff | Mariana Yampolsky | Vida Yovanovich

[above] Eclipse solar / Solar Eclipse, © 1991, Antonio Turok