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Met Receives ‘Trailblazing' Photography Gift from Collector Artur Walther

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has received a promised gift of more than 6,500 photographic works from German American collector Artur Walther and the Walther Family Foundation, which operates ...
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‘View Finding: Selections from the Walther Collection’ review: At the Met, photography’s many forms

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 ...
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Two artists capture Florida at the Met

Anastasia Samoylova at her exhibition “Floridas: Anastasia Samoylova and Walker Evans” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Oct. 10, 2024. This fall, the Met pairs images of Florida by ...
Observer

In New York, the Women Behind the Lens Step Into the Frame

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 ...
The New York Times

Two Artists Capture Florida at the Met

This fall, the Met pairs images of Florida by Walker Evans and Anastasia Samoylova, the first living female photographer with a major show there in some three decades. By Laura van Straaten This ...