An exhibit featuring photographs taken of America and Europe between the world wars opens at the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art today.
The Modern Impulse covers the years between 1918 and 1945 and emphasizes more than 40 artists who captured the age by using technology, according to the Harn’s website.
“I think this is an opportunity to look at our own time through the lens of the past,” curator of contemporary art Kerry Oliver-Smith said.
Oliver-Smith, who has worked at the museum for 21 years, spent more than a year putting together this exhibit from the Harn’s archives as a way to connect students and the community to history.
“This was when the camera was such a new innovation, it’s almost what the Internet is to us now,” she said.
About 135 photographs, books, illustrated magazines and films will be on display, according to the website.
Tami Wroath, director of marketing and public relations, said she hopes faculty members bring their students.
“The museum’s goal is to share what we have in our collection and to let people know that art is for everyone,” Wroath said. “We have over 8,300 works of art, and many of the pictures from this exhibit are coming from our collection.”
The Modern Impulse will run until Jan. 6. Admission is free.
