"'Our Future Is In The Air': Photographs from the 1910s" Exhibition

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The twentieth century was truly born during the 1910s. This exhibition surveys the range of uses to which photography was put as its most advanced practitioners and theorists were redefining the medium as an art. The title “Our Future Is in the Air” is taken from a military aviation pamphlet that figures prominently (in French) in a 1912 Cubist tabletop still life by Picasso; it suggests the twinned senses of exhilarating optimism and lingering dread that accompanied the dissolution of the old order.
[Image: Charles Sheeler “Doylestown House—Stairs from Below” (1917) Gelatin silver print 1 1/4 x 5 15/16 in.]

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