The Morris Museum of Art Presents Civil War Redux: Pinhole Photographs by Willie Anne Wright

AUGUSTA, GA.- The Morris Museum of Art presents Civil War Redux: Pinhole Photographs by Willie Anne Wright, an exhibition of more than thirty-four gelatin silver print photographs, all shot with a pinhole (lensless) camera. The exhibition is on view from July 9th through September 4th, 2011. This is an extraordinary exhibition of sepia-toned gelatin silver print photographs, all shot with a pinhole (lensless) camera, which mirror vintage photographs. Wright followed reenactors for thirteen years, capturing not the battles themselves, but the essence of mid-nineteenth-century life and the struggle and conflict of the War between the States. “For nearly fifteen years, Willie Anne Wright followed individual groups of Civil War enthusiasts to re-enactments of battles all over the South, and, just like the re-enactors, she sought to capture more than the experience of armed conflict. She, like they, sought to recapture the e

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