Los Angeles Center of Photography unveils new show honoring Aline Smithson
Pasadena Weekly
Memory and photography are inextricably linked, bearing witness to life’s most significant moments: birth, death and all that transpires between. Throughout her career, teacher and photographer Aline Smithson has chronicled how photographs move through time — conveying memory, history and being — and shift based on ever-changing technology.
“If Memory Serves: Photography, Recollections and Vision,” produced by the Los Angeles Center of Photography, honors Smithson’s contributions to photography and her work as a teacher and mentor. The exhibit will open with a reception on Saturday, Dec. 16, 2023 at the Brand Library and Art Center in Glendale and continue through Saturday, Feb. 24, 2024.
Filling out the 5,000 square-foot gallery, Smithson’s work will stand alongside collections by 12 of her former students and collaborators: Safi Alia Shabaik, Elizabeth Bailey, Dena Elisabeth Eber, Sarah Hadley, Diane Hemingway, Rohina Hoffman, Susan Lapides, Annette LeMay Burke, Annie Omens, Lori Ordover, Aurora Wilder Collective (Jennifer Pritchard in collaboration with Patrick Corrigan and DALL-E), Aline Smithson and Rosalie Rosenthal…