Taking a Broad View

Portrait Photography from the Collection

Join Museum Director and Chief Curator Susan Chevlowe for this virtual talk.

This virtual talk is based on the Derfner Museum’s current exhibition, Taking a Broad View: Portrait Photography from the Collection, which features more than two dozen images by fourteen photographers working in the United States from the late nineteenth through the early twenty-first centuries. The photographers featured employ a variety of portrait genres, including traditional headshots for entertainment or editorial use, candid portraits, environmental portraits, group and family portraits, and more. Their subjects reflect a range of American identities, from Frédéric Brenner’s women rabbis, cantors, faculty, and students in Manhattan to Larry Fink’s young girl preparing for her first communion in the Bronx, from GisMo’s Cuban American princesses in Miami to Toba Tucker’s Pueblo community members in the Southwest, and such icons of American culture as Ray Charles, James Dean, Betty Friedan, Pete Seeger, and many others.

Registration is required.  Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/qC5H41rmR1uCtmooV_BJIQ#/registration

This program is presented in collaboration with the Mount Kisco Public Library and several other Westchester libraries.

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