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Philip Trager ’56

The exhibition, Form and Movement: Photographs by Philip Trager [’56], will appear at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., through January 3, 2010. With a July 11 opening date, the exhibit showcases images from Trager’s 40-year career, including new work exhibited publicly for the first time. Most of the 90 photographs in the 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 images of New England, New York cityscapes, the Italian villas of Andrea Palladio, Paris along the Seine, and depictions of modern dance. Form and Movement is presented in cooperation with the Library of Congress, which will house the definitive archive of Trager’s life work. The curators of Form and Movement are Laura Schiavo ’91 and Reed Haslach.
The exhibition, Form and Movement: Photographs by Philip Trager [’56], will appear at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., through January 3, 2010. With a July 11 opening date, the exhibit showcases images from Trager’s 40-year career, including new work exhibited publicly for the first time. Most of the 90 photographs in the 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 images of New England, New York cityscapes, the Italian villas of Andrea Palladio, Paris along the Seine, and depictions of modern dance. Form and Movement is presented in cooperation with the Library of Congress, which will house the definitive archive of Trager’s life work. The curators of Form and Movement are Laura Schiavo ’91 and Reed Haslach.