“The Real Thing: Unpackaging Product Photography” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art through Aug. 4 is not so much about the real real thing as it is about using photographic techniques to gussy up an ...
This is the appetizer: The 40 photographs on display in “View Finding” through May 3 are a foretaste of the over 6,500 works that collector Artur Walther and the Walther Family Foundation have ...
Working with a paper magnate (and without a budget), he helped put together a collection that transformed the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s photography department. By Randy Kennedy Pierre Apraxine, a ...
Alice Austen, Group on Petria, Lake Mahopac, August 9, 1888; albumen silver print from glass negative, 6 × 8 1/8 in. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, William L. Schaeffer Collection, Promised Gift of ...