Gallery Talk: Picturing Taste, Style, and Space in 1950s American Suburbia
Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join Destiny Crowley, curatorial graduate student intern in photography, to explore photographs in the exhibition The Way We Never Were: The American Professional Photographers Collection. Topics will include the dynamic revolutions in self-fashioning and labor in the 1950s, the pursuit of modern domestic comfort and respectability, and the aesthetics of American suburbia. The Way We Never Were: The American Professional Photographers Collection is on view from August 29, 2026 to May 9, 2027. Led by: Destiny Crowley, curatorial graduate student intern in photography, Division of Modern and Contemporary Art, Harvard Art Museums; and Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University Funding for the exhibition and related programming was provided by the John R. and Barbara Robinson Family Fund for Photography and the M. Victor Leventritt Lecture Series Endowment Fund. , Fund for Modern and Contemporary Art.