Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California,1936, Edition #36/300, Published by Aperture under the auspices of the Dorothea Lange Collection at the Oakland Museum, 12 x 9 ¼ inches, Collection Reading Public Museum, Reading, Pennsylvania. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Collection [LC-USF34-9058-C]

Masters of American Photography

September 16, 2017 – January 14, 2018

Masters of American Photography features some of the great iconic images of the 20th century by Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, Edward Weston, Margaret Bourke-White, and other master photographers. Spanning nine decades of creative achievement, this exhibition, organized by the Reading Public Museum, represents a brief history of photography as art, addressing themes such as portraiture, landscape, still life, and cultural history. Included are classic images such as Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother – Nipomo, California, Marion Post Wolcott’s Winter Visitors from Nearby Trailer Park, Picnicking Beside Car on Beach, Near Sarasota, Florida, and Ansel Adams’ Monolith, the Face of Halfdome, Yosemite National Park, California. The tonal beauty and subtle surfaces of these traditional photographic prints, developed in the darkroom, set this exhibition apart. “Many of these are vintage prints, made by the photographer very close to the time the negative was made, or late prints made by the photographer or assistant years later,” comments Rachael Arauz, Ph.D., independent curator for the exhibition. Masters of American Photography is organized by the Reading Public Museum, Reading, Pennsylvania.

A Tangled Plot: Works by Annie Blazejack and Geddes Levenson

A Tangled Plot: Works by Annie Blazejack and Geddes Levenson

July 12–October 5, 2025
The Summer 2025 exhibition at the VBMA will showcase 42 paintings and mixed media works by the collaborative duo Annie Blazejack and Geddes Levenson. Blazejack earned her MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston at Tufts University, while Levenson received her MFA from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. Their work spans various media and reflects their shared focus on the environment and their upbringing in Miami, Florida.

Timeless: Robert Farber’s Fashion Photography

Timeless: Robert Farber’s Fashion Photography

February 10–August 31, 2025
The works featured in Timeless are drawn from two major bodies of work: Robert Farber’s Vintage Fashion series, captured during commercial shoots, and the Deterioration series, which consists of prints from his earlier fashion photography.