Beauty -- The Work of Charles and Ray Eames: A Legacy of Invention (Library of Congress Exhibition)
Beauty -- The Work of Charles and Ray Eames: A Legacy of Invention (Library of Congress Exhibition)
Charles and Ray Eames's philosophy of the educational role of everyday things led them to develop projects that would spur people to find beauty in the commonplace. Charles heard the music of Bach in the splash of soapy water on an asphalt schoolyard -- and made the film Blacktop. Ray saw beauty in the shape of a utilitarian leg splint -- and made elegant sculptures. The Eameses' ability to transform the ordinary into the extraordinary is one of their greatest legacies.
The Eameses' films and slide shows gave the spectator, in Charles's words, a "new depth of vision." Encompassing an enormous breadth of subject matter, the Eameses' slide shows were assembled for friends, for school courses and lectures, as well as for their corporate events. Like objects themselves, the Eameses' slides were valuable vehicles of information, providing essential connections to distant times, places, and cultures.
