Blog post by Jessica Walker

I visited the State Museum in Albany New York this past week to view the
exhibit 60 from the 60s. The collection of artist that were presented were
photographers that captured the different views of the time. The exhibit was
an intimate affair, with just one small hallway with artists on either side of
it, and one lone artist at the end of the hallway. Even though it was a small
exhibit, you could still feel the importance of the pictures that hung on the
wall. One artist I was instantly drawn towards was Betty Hahn. Her photographs
reminded me of Andy Warhol with his reproductions and replications. The four
pieces that were displayed, “Girl by four highways”, “D.M&A”, “A Ben Day Day”,
“My Sisters”, showed color distortion, replication, and exposure. She played
with composition with the “grid” of her photos, sometimes staying with
tradition and keeping her grids symmetrical, and other times placing her
replications off key to give her piece an off balance look. I enjoyed this
exhibit, there were many great artists there, like Mary Ellen Mark, Hollis
Frampton and Arnold Newman just to name a few. Newman’s photos showed
important political and icons of that time, such as Eleanor Roosevelt, Sugar
Ray Robinson, and Igor Stravinsky for example.

I would highly suggested visiting this exhibit in your free time, its
placement in the museums gives you a quiet place to view these works of art,
to lose yourself in the pictures that represented the different aspects of the
60’s.

Here is a link for the exhibit:
http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/exhibits/special/60fromthe60s.cfm

Here are the hours and other information about the Museum:
http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/information/general/