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Wednesday, August 19, 2026
1-2 pm | Meet at Front Desk
Free with Pay-What-You-Wish Admission
Join Steffi Chappell, Everson Director of Curatorial Affairs, for a tour of the exhibition A Long Look: Documentary Photography, 1888-2016, which traces more than a century of photographers turning their lenses to the world as witnesses, advocates, and storytellers.
About the Exhibition:
Spanning from 1888 to 2016, A Long Look invites viewers to consider the significance of documentary photography as a medium, asking how photographs shape collective memory and inspire social awareness. Documentary photographers must often navigate the tension between art and journalism, frequently occupying a grey area between the two.
Aaron Siskind
Grocery Store, 1940
Gelatin silver print, 14 x 10⅞ inches
Everson Museum of Art; Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Donald Baxter, 82.20.17 ©Aaron Siskind/Virginia Museum of Fine Arts