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A woman seated at a table holds a camera in front of her face.
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After donating her cameras to The Met, patron and emeritus volunteer Sue Cassidy Clark reflects on her early days in New York through her photographs, scrapbooks, and cameras.
September 23
Two people are standing on a crate to attach a large, black-and-white print to the wall, while two stand below holding the rolled part of the print.
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Step inside the gallery and watch as conservators, technicians, curators, and the artist Richard Avedon and his assistants bring his Mission Council to life.
September 4
Hand with blue gloves carefully placing image in order
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Join Jeff Rosenheim, Joyce Frank Menschel Curator in Charge of Photographs, for a closer look at the extraordinary group of tintypes from the William L. Schaeffer Collection featured in the exhibition, The New Art: American Photography, 1839-1910, on view through July 20, 2025 at The Met Fifth Avenue.
April 11
A woman discusses a case study using a presentation
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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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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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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
Founding curator of the Department of Arms and Armor, Dr. Bashford Dean in armor
Thirteen albums rediscovered in The Met collection contain rare images of arms and armor, but first they had to be restored.
Georgia Southworth
November 26, 2018
William Kentridge's The Refusal of Time (2012)
Sherman Fairchild Foundation Fellow Alexandra Nichols explains why time-based art demands special attention.
Alexandra Nichols
September 11, 2018
Louis Comfort Tiffany Suggestion for Three Upper Windows in Large Hall for the Residence of Mr. T. Eaton, Toronto, Canada
Three scholars from across The Met work together to see beneath a Louis C. Tiffany drawing.
Marina Ruiz Molina, Jalena Louise Jampolsky, and Louisa Smieska
August 14, 2017
Ibrahim creates custom-made housings for photographs
Nora Kennedy, Sherman Fairchild Conservator in the Department of Photograph Conservation, discusses the wide range of conservation work carried out by her intern this past summer.
Nora Kennedy
March 24, 2015