Electric Contrasts: the Art of the Detail

Name: Electric Contrasts: the Art of the Detail
Start: 2026-10-07T16:00:00.000Z
End: 2026-10-08T02:00:00.000Z
Location: McMurtry Building, Bowes Art & Architecture Library, 2nd floor. Visitors: Please call 650-723-3408 for building/elevator access.

Host: Stanford University

When: Thu, 8 Oct 2026, 3:00 am (AEST)

Where: McMurtry Building, Bowes Art & Architecture Library, 2nd floor. Visitors: Please call 650-723-3408 for building/elevator access.

Electric Contrasts: The Art of the Detail brings together photobooks and magazines to show how the revolution of photography in the late 19th and early 20th century changed the history of art. Electric Contrasts takes Kenneth Clark’s landmark 1938 book One Hundred Details from Pictures in the Nation

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