Public Talk: Energizing Paris After Cubism with University of Michigan Museum of Art Associate Curator of Photography, Jennifer M. Friess

In Paris between World War I and II, photographers began producing images made possible by electric lighting. Although painters and printmakers had been representing scenes illuminated by electricity as early as the 1870s, photographers—using a medium uniquely dependent upon light-sensitive materials—only started to do so in earnest after World War I when it became more widespread. Featuring photographs, prints, and drawings from the exhibition After Cubism: Modern Art in Paris, 1918–1948, this talk will explore the role current-driven light played in energizing a new, experimental era of image making.