Field Trip- Milwaukee Art Museum

Helen Levitt
by: Allison Krenz

Street photography is a craft best mastered with time. Being able to visit the Milwaukee Art Museum and see a body of work that spans an entire career, showcases this best. The installation included Levitt's black and white prints, color prints, as well as her original slides. Moving around the gallery was like wandering the streets with Levitt herself. Children are a reoccurring subject for her, as well as dogs, cars, and New York's working class. 

It's Levitt's attention to detail, but also her happenstance-esque framing that makes her images so compelling. While it is a result of having years of photos to choose from, it is still an impressive feat to have so many interesting photos come together into one exhibition. 

Ideas/Fantasm - Matthew Gamber

Matthew Gamber
Defining The Ephemeral Nature of Photography
by David Kieckhefer

Matthew Gamber explores the ephemeral image in a variety of ways with and without cameras. Eventually all surfaces decay and images fade, but Gamber embraces the fleeting nature of the image that is created by light and is eventually destroyed by it. His exhibition, Unfixed, brings together objects and images that cause us to consider mortality, time and memory, and the beauty of moments that can never last.

Installation shot from exhibition UNFIXED: The Fugitive Image

"Gamber's new project, Any Color You Like, is a bit like losing the sense of taste right as you are about to bite into something you have been looking forward to eating, and the expectation of that enjoyment usually comes from the memory of having eaten it before.  By removing the memory and one of the senses, the experience changes. Gamber's images look at objects that we have traditionally seen in color and that speaks to the idea of color, and force us to see and think about them anew."
- Aline Smithson

Matthew Gamber holds a BFA from Bowling Green State University and an MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University. He is an Assistant Professor in the Visual Arts Department at the College of the Holy Cross, having previously taught at Lesley University College of Art and Design, Boston College, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Savannah College of Art and Design, Massachusetts College of Art and Design. He has also previously worked on archive and digitization projects with Harvard University and the Boston Public Library for Digital Commonwealth.