Good In Everything: All The Worlds A Stage & Where the Sidewalk Ends

Albuquerque Museum Photo Archives presents "Good In Everything" - two part exhibition – “All the World’s A Stage” and “Where the Sidewalk Ends.” Poets and playwrights have long taken inspiration from urban life and the natural world, hoping to find words to encompass the fullness of humanity. These exhibitions bring together two contrasting ideas that highlight the human condition. “All the World’s a Stage” examines the various roles we play in public, and “Where the Sidewalk Ends” explores the freedom to not perform in any role when we are in nature.

These exhibitions draw from the approximately 150,000 images in the Museum’s Photo Archives, made by amateur, commercial, and studio photographers throughout the central Rio Grande valley and the City of Albuquerque from 1867 to the present. The collection includes photographic prints, stereoscopic views, glass plate negatives, family albums, slides, oral history recordings, ephemera, postcards, film, and digitized media.

Images:

Left: Dominguez, Untitled, January 25, 2016, Albuquerque Museum, PA2021.036.013

Right: Unknown Photographer, “Man Sitting on a Cliff,” ca. 1910, Albuquerque Museum, PA1978.031.255