During the holidays I stopped by the Brooklyn Museum to see the show NORMAN ROCKWELL: BEHIND THE CAMERA. Great studies of small town America at a more prosperous and optimistic time.The Brooklyn Museum is also a great venue and one of my favorite museums,it's small,not crowded,old school and not too glitzy unlike other NYC museums that have been recently renovated to draw larger crowds. I understand the economics of this philosophy but sometimes things are just better smaller and low key and I'm not sure the cost of expansion will prove profitable in the long term.
See the official release for the show below:
NORMAN ROCKWELL: BEHIND THE CAMERA November 19, 2010–April 10, 2011 Robert E. Blum Gallery, 1st Floor
Beginning in the late 1930s, Norman Rockwell adopted photography as a tool to bring his illustration ideas to life in studio sessions. Working as a director, Rockwell carefully staged his photographs, selecting props and locations, choosing his models, and orchestrating every detail. He created an abundance of photographs for each new subject, sometimes capturing complete compositions and other times combining separate pictures of individual elements. These photographs were the focus of a recently completed two-year project at the Norman Rockwell Museum that preserved and digitized almost 20,000 negatives. For the first time, Norman Rockwell: Behind the Camera presents these study photographs alongside his paintings, drawings, and related tear sheets to offer a fascinating look at the artist’s working process.
Norman Rockwell: Behind the Camera has been organized by the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in collaboration with guest curator Ron Schick.
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