Durham Noon Presentation

In conjunction with the exhibition Searching for the Seventies: The Documerica Photography Project, the Durham Museum is proud to host Smithsonian National Museum of American History Curator, Shannon Perich at UNMC on Wednesday, March 22nd at noon. Ms. Perich’s lecture will explore the intersections of subjects in the Documerica exhibition and incorporate artifacts from the National Museum of American to examine how art, sports and entertainment embody, propel, affirm, and challenge individual and national identity. The presentation will take place in Sorrell, room 2014.

Shannon Thomas Perich is the Curator in the Photographic History Collection, Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. She is also the Project Director for a new floor dedicated to the history of American Culture opening in 2018. She has curated many exhibitions including Laughing Matters (2016) and Country: Portraits of an American Sound at the Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles. Her essay included in Charles Mintz book Lustron Stories was published in fall 2016 by Ohio State Press. Her books include The Changing Face of Portrait Photography from Daguerreotype to Digital and The Kennedys Richard Avedon’s photographs of JFK’s family just before his inauguration. She is an occasional blogger for americanhistory.si.edu. Her collecting focus aspires to triangulate photography with an exploration of individual stories and lives, and a larger national narrative.


The event is offered through the Durham Museum and UNMC's Time Travelers program, which provides free museum admission for medical center employees, students, and their immediate family with a valid identification badge, while also offering lectures, workshops and other events on the medical center campus.

Wednesday, March 22, 2017 at 12:00pm to 12:50pm

Michael F. Sorrell Center, 2014
649 S 42nd St Omaha, NE

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