WHEN:
April 11-July 20, 2025
For more information visit the Met website.
WHERE:
The Met Fifth Avenue
Galleries 691-693
1000 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10028
A spokesperson describes the event as follows:
“...major works by lauded artists such as Josiah Johnson Hawes, John Moran, Carleton E. Watkins, and Alice Austen, will be presented in dialogue with extraordinary photographs by obscure or unknown practitioners made in small towns and cities from coast to coast. The exhibition’s many photographs by little-studied makers, early practitioners, and intrepid amateurs have been selected to reveal the artists’ ingenuity, aesthetic ambition, and lasting achievement. In some 225 photographs—most never before seen—The New Art: American Photography, 1839–1910 explores the nation’s shifting sense of self, driven by the immediate success of photography as a cultural, commercial, artistic, and psychological preoccupation..."
