2009 Investigating Where We Live

Thirty students. Thirty cameras. Twelve days. Three neighborhoods. These are the ingredients for Investigating Where We Live (IWWL), a 4-week summer program created by the National Building Museum in which middle and high school students from the Washington, D.C. metro area use digital cameras to explore D.C. neighborhoods.

The exhibition is on view to the public from August 8, 2009 through January 18, 2010. For more details click here

Evolution of Journalism

Form and Movement: Photographs by Philip Trager

Form and Movement: Photographs by Philip Trager showcases images from Philip Trager’s 40-year career, including new work exhibited publicly for the first time. Most of the 90 photographs in the 3,000-square-foot exhibition are black and white platinum, gelatin silver, or Iris prints, with the exception of Trager’s recent explorations with bold color. The exhibition includes striking images of New England, expansive New York cityscapes, the Italian villas of Andrea Palladio, Paris along the Seine, and remarkable depictions of modern dance.

Philip Trager is one of the foremost contemporary photographers of architecture and dance. Library Journal said, “Trager has spent more than 40 years making photographs that transform our physical world into moments of clarity and brightness unique to the medium.” Trager has exhibited widely and published numerous books, including the retrospective Philip Trager (2006), Dancers (1992), Photographs of Architecture (1977), and The Villas of Palladio (1986). He lives in Fairfield, Connecticut

For more details visit ASPP DC/South blog and National Building Museum