Seeing Reynolds Price Through His Art Collection

Harris – whose photographs are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Getty Museum and the High Museum in Atlanta – made a specialty of taking “portraits” in which the sitter does not appear, telling the story of a person by the rooms he or she occupies or the things they use daily. “I felt as if I had been training for this mome... See more

As longtime neighbors and friends who spent time in his house over many years, they show the ways in which the art and memorabilia Price collected inspired his writing and illuminates connections between the visible world he constructed and the creations of his mind.

These artworks have the capacity to alter our perceptions: of ourselves, certain concepts, the history or present or future of the world. Many of my favorite visual artworks reorient my perception of beauty (making a beautiful thing boring, making an ugly thing interesting); many of my favorite literary artworks change my perception of morality (by... See more