Bowdoin College Museum of Art (BCMA) has received a gift of 238 works. A gift of David and Gail Mixer, the collection focuses on artists—whether self-portraits or portraits of other artists.
Thirty-five of these works will be on view at the Museum through March 23 in a new show titled Hello, Stranger: Artist as Subject in Photographic Portraits since 1900. Since the advent of photography in the 1840s, artists have seen ready subjects in themselves—and by capturing other artists. While traditional aesthetic portraiture conventions guided many early photographers, over time new approaches emerged—from these artists’ diverse historical contexts and experiences—leading to new bodies of work that are often pointedly evocative of their time, place, and focus.
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