Is there a photograph in MoMA’s Collection you’d like to see up-close? Let us know in the comments below, and MoMA curator Sarah Meister will select a few of those to share with everyone!
In celebration of National Photography Month, this month’s LIVE Q&A takes you behind the scenes on a tour of MoMA’s collection storage, where many photographs are stored, followed by a Q&A with Sarah Meister on how curators choose which photographs to acquire and display.
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23 responses to “Trailer: LIVE Q&A with Photography Curator Sarah Meister (May 23) – Send us your questions!”
How do you select frames for photographs?
If you've got time to access one of your favorite Roy Carava's images, I'd love to see it. Thanks for sharing!
Do you collect in digital photos too so that you could have a representative of all the photographers who have contributed to this great enterprise? How is the collecting the art of photography different from other works of art?
I’ve found snapshot photographs thrown away in a dumpster. I use them in my mixed media work. Are their copyright and /or other issues involved in using “abandoned” photographs?
In the '80s, MoMA photo curator John Szarkowski called Garry Winogrand, "the central photographer of his generation." Who do you believe is the central photographer of the current generation?
Is there an effort by MOMA curators to have a more diverse group of photographers archive?
Who is the most recent (living or deceased) photographer, who has been curated at the MoMa?
Who would you consider as some of the most influential contemporary photographers of the last decade and where do you see the future of photography heading as an art form?
Oh please show a piece by Ralph Eugene Meatyard! That would be amazing!
Please pick a Mapplethorpe!
How human mind impact photographs as an artwork?
How does MOMA choose photographs by emerging photographers to add to the archive?
What Elliot Erwitt or Cartier-Bresson photographs do you have archived that have rarely been seen by the public?
Are there specific steps one can take to become a curator of photography?
My favorite photographer is Diane Arbus. Please show some of her work!
Why is the collection space so cold?
Any Todd Walker images in your collection?
I have never understood the reasoning or logic behind the photographer Sherrie Levine who has made outright copies of the work of Walker Evans and then displays the prints as her own, with a credit like this: "Sherrie Levine // After Walker Evans." As a professional photographer all my life, this seems like an outright copyright violation. What am I not understanding here?
Hi Sarah from sunny Scotland. Firstly, I have to say that I really enjoyed Seeing Through Photographs – thank you. Two questions, if you could only save one of the photographs in the collection which would it be and why? And, with other art works conservators will clean, stabilise and repair works – what is the process with photographs and will surface scratches and other damage be repaired – if so how? Thank you, looking forward to the event 🙂 http://philipjlavery.com
In this era of the democratization of the image, what aspects would you consider more important in terms of aesthetics to determine a photographer a good one?
What aspect of the work should we focus on first, when we visit photography exhibition?
I've read that Man Ray made 'photograms' without a camera. How was this done? Does MoMA have any examples in the collection?
What kind of chemical analysis is made of the print and do you have to rinse prints to save them from chemicals that may be deteriorating the paper?