The Cantor Arts Center at Stanford is offering a unique interactive exhibit that will allow individuals to examine the exposures in an intimate setting. “This component of the exhibition allows visitors to recapture the intended function of the contact sheets – namely, to look frame by frame at Warhol’s exposures in order to decide which ones are worthy of becoming photographs in their own right,” said co-curator Richard Meyer. This exhibition resonates strongly with our own culture of documenting our surroundings and personal lives through social media. Warhol was truly ahead of his time.
Possibly the most unique part of this exhibition is the technology that will allow viewers to observe the images in a “depth and detail never before possible,” stated by co-curator Peggy Phelan. The exhibition features a touch screen platform where attendees can zoom in and explore the images to examine the detail as if they held the original film in their hands. The attendee can then add and organize their favorite images to be compiled in a virtual print that is projected onto a large monitor, for everyone to appreciate. Within the exhibition, viewers are also able to observe Warhol’s process from a simple photo negative up to the iconic silkscreen paintings we know and love today.
The exhibition, Contact Warhol: Photography Without End, is on view from September 29th through January 6th, at the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University in Stanford, California.
