Coville Photography Exhibit Opens At Ringling Museum

Photographs explore the 20th and early 21st centuries thanks to a large photography donation.

A stunning collection of 75 photographs opens Friday as an exhibit at the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art. The Warren J. and Margot Coville Photography Collection Exhibition, looks at some key moments in the 20th and early 21st centuries from renowned photographers including Berenice Abbott, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Barbara Morgan and Andre Kertesz. One of the highlights of the exhibit is one photograph taken by Walter Rosenblum of hospital workers in the South Bronx in 1979. The museum's curator of modern and contemporary art, Dr. Matthew McLendon, tells SRQ magazine what this collection says: “With contemporary art there’s an anxiety to it that it really is the mirror of our society without the benefit of …

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