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Boston Athenaeum What They Saw Reading Room
Reading Room
Thursday, March 2, 2023 @ 9:00 am – Saturday, March 4, 2023 @ 5:00 pm EST
Come Explore Photobooks by Women!
Join us at the Boston Athenaeum for a three-day What They Saw Reading Room of photobooks by women. Curated in collaboration with Lauren Graves, Polly Thayer Starr Fellow in American Art and Culture at the Boston Athenaeum and with support from Gabrielle Reed, Librarian at the MassArt Library, this Reading Room presents a diverse selection of 117 photobooks by women from around the world. Rare books will be on view and touchable books will be available for browsing in the Henry Long Room on the ground floor of the Boston Athenaeum.
Experience over 100 years of books, from Julia Margaret Cameron’s Alfred, Lord Tennyson and his Friends (1893) to Shirin Neshat’s Women of Allah (1997).
$10 admission / Free to Boston Athenaeum members
Thursday, 2 March – Saturday, 4 March 2023
Thursday: 9 am – 8 pm
Friday and Saturday: 9 am – 5 pm
Panel Talk on Thursday, 2 March at 6 pm
Free to the general public. Advanced registration required.
More information here.
Spotlight Talks
Throughout the event speakers will present short talks on a photobook in the Reading Room.
Schedule of Spotlight Talks here.