Fall 2014 Friends Preview - Public Eye: 175 Years of Sharing Photography

Date and Time
December 11, 2014

Location

Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Gottesman Hall
Event Details

For donors $40 or more

Did you know the Library has a world class collection of photographs that includes almost every photographic process, from the daguerreotype to digital imagery? Public Eye: 175 Years of Sharing Photography, the first retrospective survey of photography organized by NYPL, explores the past 175 years of the medium. Ranging from photography’s first official announcement in 1839 to its current pervasiveness, the works on view, drawn completely from the Library’s collections, explore the various ways in which photography has been shared and made public.

Guided tours of the exhibition will be offered every hour on the half-hour, 11:30 a.m. through 4:30 p.m.  

Please present your membership ID card or invitation, which admits four people.

For more information, please call the Friends Office at 212.930.0653.

Support
Support for The New York Public Library’s Exhibitions Program has been provided by Celeste Bartos, Sue and Edgar Wachenheim III, Mahnaz Ispahani Bartos and Adam Bartos Exhibitions Fund, and Jonathan Altman.
Major support provided by Robert B. Menschel — Vital Projects Fund. Additional support from the Carl Jacobs Foundation; the Bertha and Isaac Liberman Foundation, Inc., in memory of Ruth and Seymour Klein; an anonymous donor; and the continuing generosity of Miriam and Ira D. Wallach.