Museum Experience Paper

My experience at the Museum of Contemporary Photography was great. The museum consisted of three different levels that were available for viewing. The first level had a receptionist area to the left as you first walk in. They want you to check your things in if you have items with you so that you don’t destroy any of the art. The lighting was pretty favorable for viewing the photographs. The one thing that stood out was that the photographs varied in sizes. They had a few photos that were smaller, and then they had others that really stood out in size. The first floor has this huge open floor plan, which is great. I liked the wood floors that they had throughout the museum. Continuing on the first floor, you can walk through one of two doorways to get to another gallery area. This is pretty much it for the first floor. In order to get to the second floor, you have
It was pretty dark walking up the stairs, but they have a projection of an image that looks like a galaxy lighting the area. It was a very different mood passing by than when I was on the other floors. I did say that I was not going to talk about the imagery in this paper, but I just have to talk about the intriguing photo that you see when you walk through the entrance after you get to the top of the stairs on the third floor. There is a picture by Jason Lazarus. It is AMAZING! First of all the picture is huge. The background is totally white without detail and the man in the picture is wearing all white. The interesting thing about this picture is that even though the background is white, he is wearing white, and his hair is very white, there is still separation. The image is awesome. I just had to say something about it. As far as the rest of the third floor, they had a few more images up there, but it seems as though they use this space as more of an archive. It also seemed like this was the area where they held different group viewings or