WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Wednesday, Aug. 16, the Clark Art Institute presents a talk focusing on works by nineteenth-century British photographers. 

 

Williams College/Clark  Graduate Curatorial Intern Eva Dailey discusses how photography functioned both as a novel artistic enterprise and as archival documentation contributing to the emergence of photo-tourism. The talk takes place at 1 pm in the Manton Study Center for Works on Paper, which houses the Clark's collection of more than 6,500 prints, drawings, and photographs.

 

In this talk, Dailey explores how the medium played an integral role in the nineteenth century archeological project and will here be considered as a window into a now irretrievable moment of material discovery.

 

Free. Capacity is limited.