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FULL: Art Study Center Seminar: American Photographs Continued, 1940s–1970s

Peter Campbell, Washington, D.C. (Gethsemane Spiritual Temple), 1964. Gelatin silver print. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 2.2002.3238.

Seminar

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

This event is at capacity.

With Walker Evans’s iconic publication American Photographs (1938) as inspiration, this seminar will pick up where Evans left off and examine American life through the photographic works from the Harvard Art Museums collections produced from the 1940s through the 1970s. This seminar will be led by Makeda Best, the Richard L. Menschel Curator of Photography.

Best will consider the period from the 1970s to 2000s in a subsequent session on February 9, 2018.

The seminar will take place in the Art Study Center, Level 4.

Free admission, but capacity is limited to 15 and registration is recommended. To register, please email am_visitorservices@harvard.edu.

Please arrive 15 minutes before the start of the program to allow sufficient time to sign in at the Art Study Center reception desk. Note that there is a wait list for this program; spots unclaimed by 11am will be released to those on the wait list. Please be prepared to present a photo ID.

Lockers are available on the Lower Level, Level 1, and Level 4 to check bags, coats, umbrellas, and any food or drink.