The Curators

Thanks to a picture postcard of the event from my Brother Henry.

 

Rosenheim’s latest labor of love is a major exhibition on Civil War photography. One of his aims was to give equal time to imagery from the North and the South. (His great-great-grandfather came from Selma, Alabama, and fought for the Confederacy.) “

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There’s an embarrassment of photographic riches on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art at the moment:  

After Photoshop: Manipulated Photography in the Digital Age; At War with the Obvious: Photographs by William Eggleston; Street by James Nares; and Photography and the Civil War.

The fact that photography has such a large footprint at the Met is due in no small part to the influence of Jeff L. Rosenheim, now in his 25th year as a curator there.

Rosenheim was hired by Maria Morris Hambourg to work in what was then the Department of Prints and Photographs, which later became the Department of Photographs. “We’ve seen a lot of changes over 25 years,” he adds, “but there is something about the photograph that continues to be relevant.”

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