UMA EXPOSIÇÃO

THE MOON IS BROKEN
Photography from Poetry, Poetry from Photography

Williams College Museum of Art
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For this exhibition, regional poets curated photographs from the museum’s collection and wrote original poems, creating lyrical arrangements that explore how image and text resonate. The exhibition, and its accompanying interpretative programming, is an invitation to reconsider and respond to photography and poetry.

Interestingly, the title for this exhibition came from a four-year-old boy who looked up at a half moon in the sky and said to his mother, “The moon is broken.” Gordon then discovered a poem by D. H. Lawrence using the same phrase. Indeed, the selection of photographs reflects a strand throughout the history of photography—from early pictorial work to contemporary artwork—in which photographs are derived from poems, compared to poems, or described in poetic terms. In this case, they inspired poems. Conversations with Williams faculty, the poets Larry Raab and Cassandra Cleghorn, helped to define the process for engaging regional poets in the exhibition.