Palo Alto · Wednesday, October 7, 2026

Electric Contrasts: the Art of the Detail

Electric Contrasts: the Art of the Detail on Wednesday, October 7, 2026 at 9:00 AM PDT at McMurtry Building - Bowes Art & Architecture Library, 2nd floor. Visitors: Please call 650-723-3408 (Museum). Best for: school-age, tween.

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When

Wednesday, October 7, 2026 at 9:00 AM PDT

Venue

McMurtry Building - Bowes Art & Architecture Library, 2nd floor. Visitors: Please call 650-723-3408

City

Palo Alto

Category

Museum

Age bands

school-age, tween

Event page

events.stanford.edu/event/electric-contrasts-the-art-of-the-detail-7315

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 National Gallery as a starting point to illuminate the impact black and white photographic details of Old…

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