current exhibition

& Loving: Photography from the Georgetown Collection

January 17, 2025 - May 18, 2025

Spagnuolo Gallery

To be curated by Prof. Ian Bourland and Georgetown students.

"Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever." – Aaron Siskind 

Photography, in a way that no other medium can, captures fragments of life – intimate, raw, emotionally charged moments that would otherwise pass in an instant. The [insert number] of images within this exhibition seek to capture our shared humanity, offering glimpses into the universal emotions that connect us all. Each individual photo holds unique fingerprints of not just the subject and the artist, but everyone involved in the process from moment to print. 

Using Georgetown’s Photography Collection from the Booth Special Collection, we are able to bring in, albeit limited, perspectives of the 20th century spanning intimate moments on a park bench to singing your heart out at a Beatles concert.

This exhibition is generously supported by Lucille M. & Richard F.X. Spagnuolo. Curated by students of Professor Bourland’s Curating the Exhibition Seminar: Ella Boasberg, Madeleine Callender, Caroline McCann, Amelia Myre, Khaki Sawyer, and Tess Whitman.

Donna Ferrato, Margo, Mt. Tamalpais, California, 2013

Archival pigment print

508 x 610 mm.

Gift of Ertan Yenicay, 2014.23.8