Hazel Larsen Archer: Black Mountain College Photographer Tapa blanda - 2006

Catalogue for an exhibition held April 21 - August 12, 2006 at Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center and August 22 - September 23, 2006 at the Fine Art Museum of Western Carolina University. Includes acknowledgments by John Wright and Alice Sebrell, essays by Connie Bostic, David Vaughan, and Erika Zarow, and reproductions of Archer's b/w photographs of Black Mountain College. 92 pages. Bound in silver pictorial wrappers. New. When Hazel Larsen arrived at Black Mountain College for the 1944 Summer Institute, the college was host to gifted artists in many disciplines. Under the influence of her mentor Josef Albers, the young photographer developed a visual aesthetic of power and sensitivity. She stayed at the college for nine years, first as a student and then as a faculty member. Full of insight and beauty, Hazel Larsen Archer's Black Mountain College photographs provide an invaluable record of a time, place, and group of people that changed our culture.

Black Mountain Press, 2006-01-15. Paperback. Used:Good.