Photography and Play Mother's Day 2023 senior curator at the National

senior curator at the National Museum of American Art in Washington

Paul Getty Museum and the authors are to be congratulated on a sumptuous catalogue of a magnificent collection

- Sculpture dimensions: 11" height x 4" base

In his distinctive

198 color and 28 b/w 
illustrations

Photography and Play Mother's Day 2023 senior curator at the NationalErin C. Garcia Photography and leisure go hand in hand. Cameras are part of our everyday lives, but we are never more likely to take a picture or to be photographed than when we are at play. As recreation and entertainment flourished in the nineteenth century, so too did the new medium of photography. Cameras became increasingly accessible to amateurs and were quickly deemed an indispensable part of what it meant to have fun. Acting as social