An Interview with Jeff Rosenheim

 

Our conversation with Jeff Rosenheim, the Curator in Charge of the Department of Photographs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. In this interview, Jeff discusses the new exhibition at the Met entitled “Photography and the American Civil War” now open and running through September 2. Jeff touches on the role of photography in the Civil War and the various types of photography from the time period.

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