The Light of the Levant
This exhibit microsite, hosted on the museum’s MiddCreate platform, features all the photographs and scholarship for The Light of the Levant, including wall texts researched and written by students.
Hamid Rahmanian (Iranian, born 1968), Kay Kavous and Sudabeh Imprisoned [detail], from Shahnameh: The Epic of the Persian Kings, 2015, digital print on metallic paper, 13 x 19 inches. Collection of Middlebury College Museum of Art. Purchase with funds provided by the Barbara P. and Robert P. ’64 Youngman Expendable Art Acquisition Fund, 2015.245. © Copyright Hamid Rahmanian.
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Exhibit Microsite
The Light of the Levant, on view through December 10, highlights the important role of the Levant region in early photography. In its broadest historical meaning, the area of the Levant, controlled by the Ottoman Empire during all or part of the nineteenth century, encompassed contemporary Greece, Turkey, and most of the Arab world.
Organized into thematic sections that are chronologically arranged, the exhibition—curated by Pieter Broucke and Sarah Rogers with help from students in the spring 2023 course “Orientalism and the Visual Arts”—features photographs that trace a century of photography in the Levant, and documents the various scientific, commercial, ideological, and personal uses of the new medium.
Interview with El Anatsui
El Anatsui is one of many artists whose work is included in our Tossed exhibit, currently on view. This interview, from a visit to the Clark Art Institute, is part of a curated playlist of videos highlighting the artists represented in Tossed. Learn more
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