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Talk | Rediscovering Nancy Ford Cones

Presented by Taft Museum of Art and FotoFocus at Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati OH

Oct 06 2022

John R. Schmidt (American, b. 1878), Twenty-Third Wedding Anniversary, 1923, gelatin silver print, 6 3/8 x 8 1/4 in. Collection of Randle and Cristina Egbert

Learn about the discovery of Cones’s photographs and the exciting challenges of searching through hundreds of prints and archival materials to write Craft and Camera: The Art of Nancy Ford Cones.

Nancy Ford Cones (1869–1962) was an internationally recognized photographer whose work was largely forgotten after her death. This talk will focus on the discovery of Cones’s photographs and the exciting challenges of searching through hundreds of prints and archival materials to write Craft and Camera:The Art of Nancy Ford Cones.

Speaker: Guest Curator Pepper Stetler, PhD.

Free for Taft members and FotoFocus Passport holders; $5 for non-members.

Questions? Please contact education@taftmuseum.org.