Met Receives ‘Trailblazing’ Photography Gift From Collector Artur Walther

Met Receives ‘Trailblazing’ Photography Gift from Collector Artur Walther

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has received a promised gift of more than 6,500 photographic works from German American collector Artur Walther and the Walther Family Foundation, which operates photography-focused exhibition spaces in New York and Germany under the collector’s direction. The donation, announced this week, spans 19th-century vernacular photography—meaning made by a non-professional or amateur—to contemporary photography and vide…

City Life Org - The Met Announces Landmark Promised Gift of Photographs from World-Renowned Collection of Artur Walther and the Walther Family Foundation

Met Fifth Ave. Photo: Kate Glicksberg The expansive gift includes more than 6,500 works, with a focus on historical and contemporary photography and time-based media primarily from Africa, China, Japan, and Germany. Iconic works from the collection will be featured in the newly reimagined Michael C. Rockefeller Wing, will be the subject of two exhibitions…

Metropolitan Museum receives 6,500 works from photography collector Artur Walther

The promised gift from Walther and the Walther Family Foundation includes photographs, albums and time-based works by artists including Malick Sibidé, Ai Weiwei, Thomas Struth, Stephen Shore and others