Hannah Morse on Untitled Photo Booth Snapshots
Two decades’ worth of private photographs provoke unanswerable questions.
Sep 17, 2021
In the online edition of MoMA’s ArtSpeaks program, a member of our staff shares personal impressions of an artwork in the galleries. Here, Hannah Morse, curatorial intern in the Department of Photography, looks at a selection of untitled photo booth images from c. 1938–60 and reflects on the transporting effect of glimpsing others’ private moments.
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