The Bunnell Decades

The exhibition celebrates the work of Peter C. Bunnell, Princeton's first professor of the history of photography. From 1972 to 2002, Bunnell mentored a generation of scholar-curators while building one of the great North American teaching collections. This exhibition presents a “timeline” of works representing the major photography exhibitions mounted at the Museum during Bunnell's years. Showcasing the great range of his scholarly interests, from the daguerreotype to Pictorialism to contemporary color photography, the exhibition chronicles the collection’s evolution from its beginnings to the turn of this century, by which time it numbered over 20,000 objects.