Critic's choice: 'Looking Through the Lens: Photography 1900-1960'

March 21, 2008

The Baltimore Museum of Art is famous for its holdings of works by Matisse and other early modernist masters, but it also houses an extraordinary collection of photographs by 20th-century masters.

Visitors to the museum will get a chance to see a generous selection of these magical images in "Looking Through the Lens: Photography 1900-1960," which opened March 16. The show presents approximately 150 photographs by such pioneers of the medium as Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Weston, Paul Strand, Dorothea Lange and Gordon Parks; all helped photography win recognition as a fine art.

A companion show, Looking Now: BMA Digital Photography Project, will present the work of 19 Baltimore photographers invited by the museum to create digital images responding to themes explored in the main exhibition. Both shows run through June 8 at the BMA, 10 Art Museum Drive. Free. Call 443-573-1700 or go to artbma.org.

Glenn McNatt

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