“The Edge of Time: Photographs of Mexico by Mariana Yampolsky” is one of three exhibitions curated to celebrate the Wittliff Collections’ 25th anniversary at Texas State University in San Marcos. The collections is hosting an open house on Oct. 1 during which authors and photographers featured in the exhibits will take questions. The event is free and open to the public. (Photos by Mariana Yampolsky)
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Texas State University is holding an open house celebrating three exhibitions on display now for the Wittliff Collections’ 25th anniversary. The come-and-go event will be 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the collections on the seventh floor of the Alkek Library on the university’s campus in San Marcos.
The Edge of Time
One of the major figures in twentieth-century Mexican photography, Mariana Yampolsky, who died in 2002, played an important role in building the Wittliff’s contemporary Mexican photography archive. This exhibition honors Yampolsky’s role in the Wittliff Collections’ history with 60 black-and-white photographs of Mexico she created during the 30-year span of 1964 to 1994.
Runs through Dec. 11.
The Dazzling Instant
Presenting 95 images by 70 photographers, this Wittliff Collections anniversary exhibition was inspired by Henri Cartier-Bresson, who wrote, “The photograph is a guillotine blade that seizes one dazzling instant in eternity.”
Each photograph on display can be seen as a powerful or poetic moment, including such classics as Moonrise by Hernandez, New Mexico by Ansel Adams, Watching the Dancers by Edward Curtis, Portrait of the Eternal by Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Dorothea Lange’s “Migrant Mother,” and Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima by Joe Rosenthal.
Runs through Dec. 11
Illuminating Texas
The first step of Spanish explorer Cabeza de Vaca on what is now Galveston Island, the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the rise of Austin’s music scene, Waco’s fiery Branch Davidian conflict, and the launch of Apollo 13 are just a few of the other incidents the exhibition illustrates through the works of noted writers, photographers, and musicians.
Runs through Nov. 30.
