The Print Center Edition: Emma Wilcox
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Emma Wilcox, Call Before You Dig, 2012, Letterpress, 8 x 10 inches, Edition of 25
Ansel Adams Retrospective – First Major Photography Exhibition
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Ansel Adams (1902 – 1984), the great master of landscape photography, exhibited at The Print Center in 1972. Planned to coincide with the artist’s seventieth birthday, Adams’ exhibition included 120 photographs and was the largest retrospective of his work to … Read More
Robert Cornelius: Abandoned Shoes of Philadelphia
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In 1990, The Print Center organized an exhibition of works by the Philadelphia photographer Robert Cornelius entitled Abandoned Shoes of Philadelphia. Professor Cornelius is one of the founders of Pittsburgh’s Silver Eye Center for Photography and has taught photography at several … Read More
The Print Center Edition: Joe Goode
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Joe Goode, Untitled, 1973, Screenprint, 13 x 17 inches, Edition of 75
The Print Center Edition: Lydia Panas
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Lydia Panas, Ashley, 2013, Archival Pigment Print, 8 x 8 inches, Edition of 25
Phil Simkin, Move It or Lose It
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In 1975, as part of The Print Center’s 60th Anniversary, the Philadelphia artist Phil Simkin (1944 -2013) created a performative spectacle that generated so much attention and controversy that people are still talking about it. For Move It or Lose … Read More
The Print Center Residency Editions
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The Print Center Residency Series, co-directed by Anne Schuster Hunter and Hester Stinnett, operated between 1988 and 1991. Artists Robert Cumming, Lois Lane, Winifred Lutz and Art Spiegelman were invited to work with lithographic master printer Timothy Sheesley and Japanese … Read More
The Print Center Edition: Michael Miller
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Michael Miller, Ski Feeder, 1974, Color lithograph, 18 x 20 inches, Edition of 40
The Print Center Edition: Matt Neff
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Matt Neff, Untitled, 2014, Archival pigment print facemounted to Plexiglas, 9 x 12 inches, Edition of 20
The Founding of The Photo Review
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The Photo Review, a quarterly journal, was founded in 1976 in Philadelphia by the writer and photographer Stephen Perloff. The beginnings of The Photo Review coincided with a cultural moment where interest in photography swelled as a critically important medium … Read More