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Split image of a man wearing a blue jacket, composite with a handing pebble.
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Meet the Artist — Jesse Krimes: Corrections | Met Exhibitions
Go behind the scenes with Jesse Krimes as he discusses his inspiration and artistic process for his works in the exhibition Jesse Krimes: Corrections, on view at The Met through July 13, 2025.
October 31, 2024
The curators Jeff Rosenheim and Thelma Golden stand before a series of photographs by the renowned Harlem Renaissance photographer James Van Der Zee.
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The James Van Der Zee Archive
James Van Der Zee, the world-renowned chronicler of Black life in New York City during the Harlem Renaissance and for decades thereafter, was a virtuoso portraitist and one of the most celebrated artists of the 20th century.
December 13, 2022
Two people looking to the left with a camera against trees.
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The Bechers in Ohio, 1987
Watch a silent film of the photographer couple, Bernd and Hilla Becher, on a road trip through the American heartland.
Max Becher
November 1, 2022
The Met Fifth facade
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A Virtual Tour of Bernd & Hilla Becher
Join Jeff Rosenheim, Joyce Frank Menschel Curator in Charge, Department of Photographs, for a virtual tour of Bernd & Hilla Becher, a retrospective celebrating the renowned German artists, Bernd and Hilla Becher (1931–2007; 1934–2015), who changed the course of late twentieth-century photography.
July 28, 2022
Two people looking at photographs on a table
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"Irving Penn: Centennial"—Curatorial Selection Process
Jeff Rosenheim, curator in charge of the Department of Photographs at The Met, and Maria Morris Hambourg, independent curator and former curator in charge of the Department of Photographs at The Met, were filmed at The Irving Penn Foundation making their selections for the Irving Penn: Centennial exhibition.
May 19, 2022
Artist William Wegman holds an ice skate.
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Contemporary Artist William Wegman on His Video Art from 1970–99 | MetCollects
"What can an audience tell the performer?" William Wegman on his video work from 1970–1999
William Wegman
March 22, 2022
A woman looks at photographs hung in a gallery
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A Virtual Tour of The New Woman Behind the Camera
The New Woman was a global ideal of female empowerment based on real women making revolutionary changes in life and art.
Mia Fineman
July 8, 2021
A woman discusses a case study using a presentation
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Developing a Time-Based Media Strategy at The Met
In this lecture, a project team formed by the Time-Based Media Working Group reported their initial findings into an assessment of The Met's time-based media holdings and the Museum's collections management practices, in an effort to design a conservation program for its collection.
February 4, 2021
A sign on a pink wall reads Photography's last century. Below a nine framed heashots of the same person making different faces.
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Exhibition Tour—Photography's Last Century: The Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee Collection
Take a tour through the exhibition Photography’s Last Century: The Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee Collection with Jeff Rosenheim, Joyce Frank Menschel Curator in Charge of the Department of Photographs at The Met.
March 22, 2020
A man wearing blue pants, white shirt, striped tie and pink suspenders prepares a daguerreotype camera to take a photo.
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Girault de Prangey's Multiple Exposure Daguerreotypes
After three years traveling throughout the Eastern Mediterranean, Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey returned to France with more than one thousand daguerreotype—unique photographic images on silvered copper plates.
Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey
May 12, 2019