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Exhibition: Confronting Childhood

Exhibition: Confronting Childhood

Drawn entirely from the Museum’s exceptionally rich holdings in this area, Confronting Childhood can but hint at the complexities of representing children and childhood over a period of about two hundred years.
Museum Announces Award of Two 2019 Minor White Archive Research Grants

Museum Announces Award of Two 2019 Minor White Archive Research Grants

The Museum has announced the award of two 2019 Minor White Archive Research Grants by the Minor White Project Committee. These awards of up to $4,000 are intended to help defray costs incurred by scholars traveling to and residing in...
Peter C. Bunnell has made a generous donation of papers to the Princeton University Art Museum

Peter C. Bunnell has made a generous donation of papers to the Princeton University Art Museum

Peter C. Bunnell, David Hunter McAlpin Professor of the History of Photography and Modern Art Emeritus, has made a generous donation of papers to the Princeton University Art Museum.
Object Highlight | The Life of an Image: “Molotov Man," 1979–2009

Object Highlight | The Life of an Image: “Molotov Man," 1979–2009

The Museum recently acquired the work The Life of an Image: “Molotov Man,” 1979–2009 , by photographer Susan Meiselas
New on View: Photographic Views of the Imperial Asylum at Vincennes

New on View: Photographic Views of the Imperial Asylum at Vincennes

The album Photographic Views of the Imperial Asylum at Vincennes (1861) by the celebrated French artist Charles Nègre is now on view in the galleries of European art from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Last Look | History on View in the Gallery of American Art

Last Look | History on View in the Gallery of American Art

Hung together in the gallery of American art, Dorthea Lange’s portrait, a recent acquisition, and an Ansel Adams landscape long held in the collection present this historical period through two distinctly different representations.
Clarence H. White and His World Opens at the Portland Museum of Art

Clarence H. White and His World Opens at the Portland Museum of Art

Clarence H. White and His World: The Art and Craft of Photography, 1895 – 1925 opened in Maine at the Portland Museum of Art, where it is on view through September 16.
Exhibition | Picturing Protest

Exhibition | Picturing Protest

Fifty years after the watershed events of 1968, the exhibition Picturing Protest examines the visual framing of collective action between 1960 and 1970 around the country and on Princeton’s campus.
Last Look | Clarence H. White and His World at the Davis Museum through June 3

Last Look | Clarence H. White and His World at the Davis Museum through June 3

See the exhibition Clarence H. White and His World: The Art and Craft of Photography, 1895 – 1925 in its final weeks at the Davis Museum, Wellesley College.
On view | Photography and Belonging

On view | Photography and Belonging

This spring a selection of works from the Museum’s collections investigates the ways in which experiences of belonging and alienation have been both a subject and an effect of photography. Photographers have long sought to depict human relationships and social...