Opening Celebration | Life Magazine and the Power of Photography

Title

Opening Celebration | Life Magazine and the Power of Photography

Date

Saturday, February 22, 2020

Time

5:00 PM EST

Location

McCosh 10

Join exhibition curators Katherine Bussard, the Art Museum’s Peter C. Bunnell Curator of Photography, Kristen Gresh, Estrellita and Yousuf Karsh Senior Curator of Photographs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Alissa Schapiro, PhD candidate at Northwestern University, for a lecture introducing key themes and works of art in this groundbreaking exhibition. A reception in the Museum will follow.

 

Image caption:  J. R. Eyerman, American, 1906–1985, Audience watches movie wearing 3-D spectacles, 1952. Gelatin silver print. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Howard Greenberg Collection—Museum purchase with funds donated by the Phillip Leonian and Edith Rosenbaum Leonian Charitable Trust. © 1952 The Picture Collection Inc. All rights reserved.