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BARBARA MORGAN
Barbara Morgan created a series of inventive photomontages and double-exposures in her exhibition: The Montages. She is a choreographer of images, and her photomontages contain a remarkable inner motion.

Fossils in Formation is about identity, but not of the personal variety. There is a reversal of the "object-over-scene," a practice of making the object less "real" than the scene. Here the city is thinned, washed, fogged out, so that the effect of the superposed fossil is actually to darken the buildings, making them more substantial. This “visual metaphor” is a classic example of Morgan’s work.