Modern Photography in a Brand New Space


October 2, 2007
clipped from www.nytimes.com
Since its 2003 survey of Thomas Struth, the Metropolitan Museum of Art has been getting serious about photography. In 2005 it presented a Diane Arbus retrospective and, in a stunning move, acquired more than 8,500 works by absorbing the Gilman Paper Company Collection. Last spring it offered a glimpse of video and new-media works from its holdings. (Who knew the Met even had video, let alone a David Hammons?) Now the museum has designated a gallery exclusively for the exhibition of photographs made after 1960.
The new space is certainly an improvement on the rotating photography displays located in a crowded, noisy hallway outside the modern-art wing. There, tucked between a gift shop and a bathroom, visitors could get up close (often too close for the curators’ comfort) to the large-scale works the museum had been acquiring since the department of photography was founded in 1992.




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