MILWAUKEE, WI.- The Warehouse Art Museum presents “Pause/Connect: Photography in the WAM Collection,” running from Aug. 11 – Nov. 10, 2023, including works by Uta Barth, Margaret Bourke-White, Helen Levitt, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Gordon Parks, Carrie Mae Weems and many others, most drawn from the museum’s collection.

With over 80 photographs and two videos, the exhibition is a select overview of how photographs shape our relationships — to ourselves, to each other and to the world around us. Photographs forge links to history and memory, connecting us to people and places that may no longer be directly accessible.

The camera’s ability to arrest the passage of time by extracting a single moment from the flux of daily life creates new perspectives on familiar sights. It also introduces unique visual phenomena, such as X- rays, objects suspended in mid-air and incomplete gestures or facial expressions.

To that end, “Pause/Connect” is arranged in thematic groups that encompass a variety of approaches. The pictures create vibrant conversations across history, geography and sensibility.

This exhibition and all programming events are free of charge and open to the public.

“Pause/Connect” is guest curated by Lisa Hostetler, PhD, an independent curator and art historian specializing in photography and modern/contemporary art. She previously served as curator in charge of the Department of Photography at the George Eastman Museum, the McEvoy Family Curator of Photography at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and curator of photographs at the Milwaukee Art Museum. She earned her PhD from Princeton University with a dissertation on photographer Louis Faurer while working as a research associate at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.