Now playing · Oct 1, Apr 27 · 12:30pm

Gallery Talk: Crafting Perfect Portraits with Photographic Proof Prints

Harvard Art Museums · Harvard Art Museums · 32 Quincy Street · Cambridge · MA 02138 · Cambridge

Thu Oct 1 / Tue Apr 27 · 12:30pm

Madison Brown, co-curator of The Way We Never Were: The American Professional Photographers Collection, discusses proof prints, which studio photographers used to plan retouching. A finished portrait was the result of a multi-step process rather than a single moment behind the camera, and handwritten notes on the proofs show the collaborative work behind it. Brown is a Smithsonian postdoctoral fellow at the National Museum of American History.