Faculty Member Jonathan Kline Gives Talk At the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Photography faculty member Jonathan Kline was recently invited to share his portfolio of photographs at New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art on Thursday, October 11, 2007. Speaking with an international group of curators and photo conservators as part of a week-long seminar series focusing on 19th century photographic processes, funded by the Andrew Mellon Foundation, Kline provided examples of how contemporary artists use historical or vintage processes in their work.

Kline is well-versed in these methods having employed both alternative and digital means in his recent Ecliptic Project, which entails long time exposures of the orbiting sun overhead using hand made cameras along with different lenses and pinholes. The three-year long Ecliptic Project was undertaken while in residence throughout North America at Ucross in Wyoming, the Santa Fe Art Institute in New Mexico, Anderson Ranch in Colorado, in Baja California, Mexico and the Arctic Circle.