IN AND OUT OF THE STUDIO: PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS OF WEST AFRICA

August 31, 2015–January 3, 2016   Admission is pay what you wish.

Directions 4, 5, 6 to 86th St, Buses M1, M2, M3

This exhibition presents one hundred years of portrait photography in West Africa through nearly eighty photographs taken between the 1870s and the 1970s. These works, many of which are being shown for the first time, are drawn from the Metropolitan Museum’s Visual Resource Archives