World-Renowned Collector Gifts Over 6,500 Photographs to the MET

Photo: The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) entrance façade in Upper East Side, Manhattan, New York City – September 9, 2019. Photo credit: Lucas Ferretti via Flickr. CC BY-SA 2.0. Article by Kate Garibaldi. PetaPixel – May 16, 2025.

Art News reports that the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET) in New York City has announced a promised gift of over 6,500 photographic works from the German-American collector Artur Walther and the Walther Family Foundation. Since 2010, under Walther’s direction, the eponymous art foundation has been operating annual photography-focused exhibitions and programs in New York and Germany. With a collection described by the museum as one of the “most distinguished private collections of photography in the world,” this exciting promised gift will bring to the public an enormous curated gathering of modern and contemporary photographic art. […]

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