Researchers know that the NYPL collection of FSA images differs from that at
The Library of Congress. We also know that the rich pictorial representation of African American life at NYPL — both in the Picture Collection and the Schomburg Collection — owes a great deal to the collaboration between these two forceful curators. This paper will discuss evidence of the ways in which Javitz and Schomburg worked together as shown in terms of photography and print material at the NYPL.

Thursday, October 22, 7PM
Princeton Preservation Group, cosponsored by the Newark Public Library
Free
Virtual
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Mary Panzer is a historian of photography and American culture, with a special interest in images made for the public sphere. In the 1990s, Dr. Panzer served as Curator of Photographs for the National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution), where she published biographies of Mathew Brady and Philippe Halsman. She is co-author of the prizewinning Things as They Are: Photojournalism in Context since 1995 (2005). Her most recent publications include essays on Commercial Street Photographers in San Francisco, and the origins of LIFE magazine. She is working on a history of commercial photography in America, 1935-1965.

Note: This event is cosponsored by the Newark (NJ) Public Library.