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Photo departments, acquisitions, curatorial moves and archives
The National Portrait Gallery marks 50 years of collecting photography, spanning daguerreotypes to digital portraits — a milestone that traces the medium's full technical and institutional arc.
Harvard's Peabody Museum stages an exhibition of photographs serving as testimony to Iran's undocumented history, treating images as primary evidence…
The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery will mark 50 years of its photography collection, which now makes up nearly half of the museum's entire h…
The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond has received a major gift of nearly 2,000 important photographs, an accession that materially reshapes t…
Albania's National Museum of Photography "Marubi" joins Italy's Archivi Aperti for its first cross-border edition, bringing Shkoder's photographic he…
Aperture, the storied photography foundation and publisher, has opened a permanent New York home, with Sarah Meister explaining what the move means f…
The founder of the South Carolina Civil Rights Museum reflects on photographing the civil rights era — an archive he made himself and now preserves f…
