Painting with Light

This is a completely new guide to the FreerSackler Gallery collection of nineteenth- and twentieth-century photographs from Asia and the Middle East, which features some remarkable early photography as well as newly acquired works by leading modern and contemporary artists, photographers and film-makers. Highlights include extremely rare photonegative portraits of Cixi (1835-1908), the Qing empress dowager of China, photographed by the son of her senior lady-in-waiting, who may have been the only person ever permitted to photograph her. There is also a series of photos taken by Alice Roosevelt Longworth during the Taft Mission to Asia in 1905.

David Hogge has served as head of the FreerSackler Archives since 2001, guiding the department through its transition into the digital age. In particular, Hogge is working to give due visibility to the Archives' mportant collections of early photography of Asia. He received a master's degree in art history, with an Asian art emphasis, from the University of Washington in 1993. Carol Huh, associate curator of contemporary Asian art, became the reerSackler's first curator of contemporary art in 2007. Through exhibitions, acquisitions, and public programs, Huh focuses on current social change and artistic production related to Asia. Recent projects haveincluded such exhibitions as Symbolic Cities: The Work of Ahmed Mater, the museum's ongoing Perspectives series (featuring works by Y.Z. Kami, Hale Tenger, Hai Bo, Rina Bannerjee, and Michael Joo, among others), and Fiona Tan: Rise and Fall (Vancouver Art Gallery), for which Huh was the in-house curator. She received bachelor's andmaster's degrees from Georgetown University