In January 2010, the High will premier an exhibition of new work by California-based photographer Robert Weingarten. Consisting of twenty large-scale (60 x 90 in.) digitally created portraits of American icons, Weingarten's project represents a bold departure from traditional camera portraiture.

In The Portrait Unbound, Weingarten has created photographs that are highly sophisticated digital compositions of imagery that allude to specific interests, achievements or moments within the subject's life. The result is a unique and compelling composite of images which describes the subject through biographical rather than physical information.

The Portrait Unbound: Photographs by Robert Weingarten is organized by the High Museum of Art and is curated by Julian Cox, the High's Curator of Photography.