August 21–October 16, 2016 - The exhibition probes the question “How do Americans remember war?” with soldiers’ portraits developed in the flesh of leaves, battlefield landscapes photographed using 19th-century technologies, and war poems of intimate reflection.
“The real war will never get in the books,” Walt Whitman declared. In response, photographer Binh Danh and poet Robert Schultz have drawn upon Whitman’s poetry and prose, as well as striking historical portraits of soldiers, to create daguerreotypes, chlorophyll prints, cyanotypes, artist’s books, and poems that contemplate American wars past and present.
Dates:August 21, 2016 11:00 am to October 16, 2016 05:00 pm
Address:500 University Ave., Rochester, New York 14607 , United States
Phone:585.276.8900
Contact:Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester
Website:http://mag.rochester.edu/exhibitions/war-memoranda/