Curator Brendan Fay on Photography as a Way of Life
Minor White, Jan Davis, vicinity of Pescadero, California, June 30, 1951. The Minor White Archive, Princeton University Art Museum, bequest of Minor White. © Trustees of Princeton University
Exhibition curator Brendan Fay discusses the three influential photographers who shaped how photography is viewed as an art form.
To mark the opening of Photography as a Way of Life: Minor White, Aaron Siskind, and Harry Callahan, exhibition curator Brendan Fay explores the lasting impact of the three influential photographers who reimagined their medium as a livelihood and a life’s work. As leading postwar art photographers, White, Siskind, and Callahan transformed how photography was taught, published, exhibited, and understood, shaping the artistic aspirations of an era. Introduced by Katherine A. Bussard, Peter C. Bunnell Senior Curator of Photography.
After the talk, Fay will be signing copies of his book, Photography as a Way of Life: Minor White, Aaron Siskind, and Harry Callahan—the publication associated with the exhibition—which will be available for purchase at the Museum Store.
Registration for the panel discussion includes early access to the exhibition beginning at 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 18.
Registration will open to the public on March 11. Please check back for the link.
Members receive full-day access to the exhibition from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. for the Members Preview Day before it opens to the public fully on April 19. If you are not yet a member, join today!
