The Amon Carter Museum of American Art (the Carter) presents a selection from their Karl Struss artist archive, offering unprecedented access to ephemera from all stages of Struss’ career, from his invention of a pioneering soft-focus lens to becoming the paradigmatic cinematographer of Hollywood’s Golden Age.
Moving Pictures: Karl Struss and the Rise of Hollywood follows Struss’ artistic evolution from early fine-art photographer to innovative filmmaker.
The Carter holds over 2,000 prints and 5,000 negatives by Struss, along with a deep archive of correspondence, clippings, records, photographs, and technical materials from throughout Struss’ career, making the museum uniquely qualified to offer a comprehensive and compelling look at the photographer’s career. Moving Pictures will display over 100 photographs and additional objects from the Carter’s archives in tandem with key loans, taking visitors through Struss’ storied career, beginning with his time as a successful pictorialist photographer in New York and his selection to Alfred Stieglitz’s Photo-Secession group in 1910, to his later career creating industry-defining work in Hollywood’s silent film era, earning him the first-ever Academy Award for Best Cinematography in 1929.
Moving Pictures: Karl Struss and the Rise of Hollywood
On view through August 25, 2024
Amon Carter Museum of American Art (the Carter)
3501 Camp Bowie Blvd
Fort Worth, TX 76107
https://www.cartermuseum.org/
