Doug Eklund

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  Published on: 7/23/2008    Last Visited: 9/13/2008  

  New York, N. Why?: Photographs by Rudy Burckhardt, 1937-1940 is organized by Douglas Eklund, Associate Curator in the Department of Photographs.
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  The exhibition is accompanied by a facsimile edition of the album, with an essay by Douglas Eklund, published by Nazraeli Press ($60).

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  Published on: 1/1/2003    Last Visited: 2/9/2008  

  "I don't see as much staged photography anymore," agrees Doug Eklund, assistant curator in the department of photographs at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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  Published on: 9/24/2007    Last Visited: 5/14/2008  

  "The inaugural installation will survey some of the key photographs we have acquired over the last 20 years, as well as works that we could not exhibit until now because we did not have a proper space," said Doug Eklund, Assistant Curator in the Department of Photographs and its specialist in contemporary photography.
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  Now we can really show what we have been collecting," concluded Mr. Eklund.
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  Each film will be followed by a discussion with the artist moderated by Doug Eklund.Additional education programs include a program for teachers on Saturday, December 1 and gallery talks by Doug Eklund on October 4 (FM assistive listening devices available), November 2, November 9, November 28, December 5, and December 11 at 11 a.m.

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  Published on: 10/6/2008    Last Visited: 9/13/2008  

  "Photography on Photography: Reflections on the Medium Since 1960" is organized by Douglas Eklund, Assistant Curator in the Department of Photographs.
  
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  Several programs—including gallery talks by Assistant Curator Douglas Eklund—are scheduled in conjunction with this exhibition.Search the calendar for related programs.
  
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  Published on: 8/27/2008    Last Visited: 8/28/2008  

  The 21-artist mix isn't perfect, but the curator, Doug Eklund, deserves credit for taking a few risks.

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  Published on: 5/3/2007    Last Visited: 5/3/2007  

  "Small in scale and unobtrusive in presentation, Ann Hamilton's abc seemed to us almost like a still photograph come to life," said Doug Eklund, Assistant Curator of the Department of Photographs and curator of the exhibition.
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  "Situated at the crossroads of painting, photography, film and new media, Eastpoint resonates especially beautifully with the Museum's collections," Doug Eklund noted.
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  Closed Circuit has been organized by Douglas Eklund, Assistant Curator in the Metropolitan Museum's Department of Photographs.

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  "One of the main subjects of photography, from Fox Talbot through the Bechers, is the idea of the archive," explains Douglas Eklund, the photography-department research associate in charge of rotating the installation's CDs.The McCoys' piece "elaborates on these older themes but carries them into our new digital world," he says.
  
  The arrival of digital art at the Met signals a general acceptance of the genre by established institutions.

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  Published on: 6/16/2002    Last Visited: 2/24/2003  

  Another lecture will be held on Sunday at 11:00 am in the West Ballroom entitled "A Conversation with Thomas Struth" with Maria Morris Hambourg, Curator in Charge, Department of Photographs, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Douglas Eklund, Senior Research Assistant, Department of Photographs The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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  Published on: 10/16/2003    Last Visited: 10/5/2006  

  Maria Morris Hambourg, Curator in Charge, Department of Photographs, the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Douglas Eklund, Senior Research Assistant, Department of Photographs, the Metropolitan Museum of Art; and photographer Thomas Struth will have a three-way conversation about his work.

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  It's not art until someone sees it | csmonitor.com - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 2/8/2003    Last Visited: 2/8/2003  

  "Struth's concept," according to co- curator Douglas Eklund, "is that the viewer completes the meaning of a work" by participating in creating its meaning.
  
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  His "aim is to unleash the power of paintings," Eklund says.Struth believes "art can transcend all of history's cataclysms," Eklund continues.
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  "There's a restorative aspect to [Struth's] work," Eklund says.
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  These scenes of jungles throughout the world originated after the fall of the Berlin Wall, when, as Eklund says, "the split people lived with of two competing ideologies was gone."
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  Eklund compares the gallery of grandly scaled photographs of dense foliage to "the Rothko Chapel, with its marvelous, spiritual quality."The eye gets tangled up in green, as one takes in lushly intertwined trees, vines, and leaves dappled with sunlight, each distinct, yet organically connected.

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