Exhibition Opening Program for The Way We Never Were: Barbara Norfleet and Photography at Harvard
Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA, MA
To celebrate our new exhibition The Way We Never Were: The American Professional Photographers Collection, join us for a roundtable conversation reflecting on Barbara Norfleet’s expansive influence on photography at Harvard as a teacher, curator, and artist. Kiku Adatto, Peter Galassi, Lauren Greenfield, and Susan Meiselas will share personal memories and talk about how Norfleet helped shape the study and practice of photography across generations. Following the lecture, guests are invited to visit the exhibition on Level 3. Speakers: Kiku Adatto, Scholar-in-Residence at the Mahindra Humanities Center and Lecturer on Social Studies, Harvard University Peter Galassi, Writer, curator, and art historian Lauren Greenfield, Artist, documentary photographer, and documentary filmmaker Susan Meiselas, Artist Audrey Sands, Richard L. Menschel Associate Curator of Photography, Harvard Art Museums This program will be livestreamed. To tune in, check back here soon. The Way We Never Were: The American Professional Photographers Collection brings renewed attention to a vast archive of photographs assembled in the 1970s by sociologist and curator Barbara P. Norfleet. The exhibition is on view…