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WM Hunt | Critical Eye Collectors Exhibition Walk Through
November 16, 2022 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Join us for an online conversation with W.M. Hunt and the collectors of Critical Eye | Photography before the Digital Age November 16th at 7pm Eastern / 4pm Pacific in the Griffin Zoom Room.
Critical Eye | Photographic Collections before the Digital Age is a wide-ranging exhibition featuring the works of ten New England based collectors. Ten visions spanning the medium through the twenty and twenty-first century
Mr. Hunt will be doing a virtual walk through of the collections with q&a for the collectors about their selected works, reflecting on the images importance in the canon of photography, with historical tidbits and stories behind the images.
This event is FREE to Griffin Museum members. $10 for Non Members. Interested in Membership and its benefits? See more about what the Griffin offers here.
About WM Hunt –
W.M. Hunt, is a photography collector, curator and consultant who lives and works in New York. He has been collecting photography for 40 years.
His Collection Dancing Bear consists of magical heart stopping images of people in which their eyes cannot be seen and is the subject of his book “The Unseen Eye” (Aperture, Thames & Hudson, Actes Sud). His Collection Blind Pirate has images of American groups before 1950. Highlights from both collections have been exhibited in the US and internationally, most recently at the Fotofestiwal in Lodz Poland.
He has worked with the Griffin since its first Focus Award ceremony and with an installation of works by the photo agency VII and an exhibition by Martin Schoeller. Hunt loves talent; he does lots of portfolio reviews and was a dealer for many years (Hasted Hunt and Ricco/Maresca). He has taught at the ICP, Aperture, SVA, and the Maine Media Workshop.
Hunt is on the Board of Directors of the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund and, formerly, The Center for Photography at Woodstock where he was the recipient of their Vision Award in 2009. He has also served on the Board of Directors of AIPAD (Association of International Photography Art Dealers) and was the past Chairman of Photographers + Friends United Against AIDS.
He says that photography changed his life. It gave him one.
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