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Review from The Philadelphia Inquirer: Arts: November 5, 2004
By Edward J. Sozanski, Inquirer Art Critic
...Ida Weygandt's large-scale photographs are also vaguely romantic in the way they describe a vanishing aspect of American culture, yet they're firmly connected to reality. The suite of nine images, made with a view camera, depicts the quiet side of fox-hunting. Except for a pack of riders on the crest of a field, Weygandt focuses on atmosphere and personalities through informal portraits, detailed interiors, and an especially beautiful picture made inside a stable, without horses.
The photographs are reflective and, in several cases, elegiac, as if Weygandt were trying to preserve this slice of upper-class culture before it is eradicated by developement.
November 5th, 2004
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