FACE VALUE EXHIBITION
MoMA Project, completed May 2025Face Value: Celebrity Press Photography
June 28, 2025 – June 21, 2026
1921 - 1996
Gelatin Silver Developed-out Prints (71)
Various
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Point conservator for “Face Value: Celebrity Portraiture from the Collection” on display in MoMA’s Titus and Morita Galleries from June 2025 to June 2026. The exhibition features over 200 photographs by over 58 photographers from 1921 to 1996. These studio shots depict iconic stars such as Clara Bow, Audrey Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Elvis Presley, and Jackie Kennedy Onassis. Nearly all of the images contain image-manipulation methods such as over-painting, masking, and/or collage elements.
My responsibilities included condition assessments for 235 editorial photographs, evaluating each print for its stability for a one-year exhibition display, recommending framing solutions and exhibition conditions, and executing stabilization and cosmetic treatments on 71 works.
The exhibition was organized by Curator Ronald Magliozzi, with Katie Trainor, Film Collections Manager, and Cara Shatzman, the Collection Specialist for the Department of Film.
