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Evidence & Theory: Photographs from the Maxwell Museum Archives

-Temporary Exhibit-

End Date: 
Wednesday, June 15, 2016
Image of people standing in line

Photography occupies a unique position in the world of invention, with the photographic image held as both an expression of hard factual evidence and as subject to complex theoretical interpretation.

Evidence and Theory: Photographs from the Archive of the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology questions the fundamental interpretation of photographic imagery and the relationship between seeing and knowing truth. The exhibition explores this duality through a collection of historical images from the Maxwell Archive, many on display for the first time