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Unidentified artist, Untitled (Woman and two children in front of car), undated. Gelatin silver print on paper. Gift of Peter J. Cohen. Photo Peter Jacobs.
Hear insights from the curators of two new exhibitions that spotlight various aspects of amateur photography and its role in art history.
Hannah Shaw, Graduate Curatorial Assistant, 2018-2022, and PhD candidate in the Department of Art History at Rutgers, explores Snapshots! Selections from the Peter J. Cohen Gift, a compilation of anonymous creators and subjects from the late twentieth century.
Austin Losada, Andrew W. Mellon Post-Graduate Intern, 2019-2021, discusses “Beauty Among the Ordinary Things”: The Photographs of William Armbruster, which focuses on this resident in turn-of-the-century Jersey City who sought to increase interest in the craft, while capturing the transformation of his surroundings.