Ruth Thorne-Thomsen

Invented Worlds: Photographs by Ruth Thorne-Thomsen
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City
Feb. 20 – July 28 2013
Photographer Ruth Thorne-Thomsen (b. 1943) has been described as a visual poet. Her mysterious and lyrical body of work uses the inspiration of the simplest of imaging devices, the pinhole camera, to rethink the expressive potential of photography. Invented Worlds: Photographs by Ruth Thorne-Thomsen opens at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City Feb. 20 and runs through July 28, featuring 40 of her photographs.