Online Exhibition: Frozen Frames

Frozen Frames: Preserving Pasadena’s Visual Legacy, PMH's premiere online exhibition, is presented via Kunstmatrix, an innovative 3D showcase for artwork that has captured the attention of museums and art galleries worldwide.

cryogenically preserved - historically compelling

Frozen Frames: Preserving Pasadena’s Visual Legacy is an exhibit series that unfolds in four parts, bringing artistically and historically compelling images out of the deep freeze and into public view. The photographs come from among the more than 200,000 at-risk negatives that are now cryogenically preserved as part of the Museum’s Great History Freeze project of 2015.

Curated by PMH Director of Collections Anuja Navare, the four-part Frozen Frames exhibition is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Michael Kadin with generous funding provided by The Paloheimo Foundation and the Kadin family.

 

You can view each part as it opens by clicking the entry links below.

Frozen frames preserving pasden's artistic legacy.
Frozen frames at the pampasadena museum of observation gallery.

Orientation Gallery

A selection of images and a brief introduction to each of the four exhibitions.

An old black and white photo of a house.

The Flag Collection

Showcasing images from the frozen nitrate negatives in The Flag Collection. Commercial photographer Emil Groetzinger and his sons' work dates from the opening of his Flag Studio in 1909 until 1940.

A woman holding scissors in front of a store.

The Hawkins Collection

Featuring images by the most important and prolific mid-century photographer in Pasadena, J. Allen Hawkins. This is PMH’s most extensive collection, consisting of an estimated 300,000 prints and negatives. A smaller portion of the total photographs from Hawkins’ studio (about 3,500 images) is maintained by The Huntington.

a black and white photo of a small child in a white dress next to a fountain

The Fényes-Curtin-Paloheimo Collection

The images in this collection were selected from 1,500 nitrate negatives that document the life and interests of the Fényes Family matriarch, Mrs. Eva Scott Fényes (1849-1930), and carry the visual legacy of Pasadena from 125 years ago forward.

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