The Sandbox: At Play with the Photobook

Carnegie Museum of Art
Pittsburgh, PA
May 3 - July 28, 2014

The Sandbox: At Play with the Photobook, transformed the Carnegie Museum’s Coatroom Gallery into a playful hybrid space for encounters with the photobook: part reading room, part bookshop, part library, part event space. During the three months that the installation was open to the public, visitors encountered a rotating selection of photobooks and intimate events emphasizing contemporary trends that give the medium its character.

The Sandbox was a project of the Hillman Photography Initiative, a living laboratory for exploring the rapidly changing field of photography. The first cycle of the Hillman Photography Initiative, launched in 2014, investigates the lifecycle of images: their creation, transmission, consumption, storage, potential loss, and reemergence. 

Press: CMOA Storyboard, Pittsburgh City Paper