White Shadows: Anneliese Hager and the Camera-less Photograph

Please join the Friends of Photography for a special presentation by Lynette Roth, Daimler Curator of the Busch-Reisinger Museum at the Harvard Art Museums, who will examine the camera-less photographs of German artist and poet Anneliese Hager, active from the 1930s to the 1960s. Two rare and unique works by Hager were recently acquired by the Saint Louis Art Museum. Undoubtedly one of the most accomplished 20th-century makers of camera-less photographs, or photograms, Hager has remained relatively unknown, in part because her early artwork was destroyed in the 1945 bombing of Dresden. Drawing on research related to her rediscovery of Hager’s work and reconstruction of the artist’s development, Roth will demonstrate Hager’s significant contributions to the medium of camera-less photography and to the wider surrealist movement in Europe.

Registration is required. RSVP before May 16 to 314.655.5390 or collectors.circle@slam.org.

Collectors Circle programs at the Saint Louis Art Museum are presented by the Betsy and Thomas Patterson Foundation.