Met Receives ‘Trailblazing’ Photography Gift from Collector Artur Walther

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has received a promised gift of more than 6,500 photographic works from German American collector Artur Walther and the Walther Family Foundation, which operates photography-focused exhibition spaces in New York and Germany under the collector’s direction.The donation, announced this week, spans 19th-century vernacular photography—meaning made by a non-professional or amateur—to contemporary photography and video, and represents artists from Afric