There’s an incredible story waiting to be told in the Records of the Department of Photography! In 1

There’s an incredible story waiting to be told in the Records of the Department of Photography! In 1940 Herman DeWetter, then Staff Photographer, proposed that the museum start including photography in the collection since he did “not know of any institution of the calibre of the Brooklyn Museum which is making a permanent collection of fine photographic prints.” Did the Brooklyn Museum really have the first permanent photography collection? In the 1930s and 1940s the department was in charge of photographing objects in the collection, teaching photography classes to the public, staging exhibitions of photography, judging open call competitions, and advocating for other institutions to have robust photography programs. They also contributed to our incredible lantern slide collection. Historians of photography like to point out that the field was inclusive of women from its early days, and the department was no different in that it had many employees who were women. Several of the employees were funded by the Works Progress Administration.Posted by J.E. Molly Seegers Photo by Brooke Baldeschwiler -- source link

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