Arresting Beauty at The Morgan Library - Exclusive APA Members Only Walk

On Friday, June 20, 2025, join APA|NY for a members-only, exclusive, curator-led walk-through of Arresting Beauty: Julia Margaret Cameron at the Morgan Library & Museum, a landmark exhibition celebrating one of photography’s earliest visionaries.

This exhibit presents an extraordinary range of Cameron’s 19th century photographs, including iconic portraits, literary tableaux and allegorical images that redefined the possibilities of photography as art.

Our private group tour will be co-hosted by Allison Pappas; Jane P. Watkins Assistant Curator of Photography at the Morgan Library and Keliy Anderson-Staley, 2022 Guggenheim Fellow and Professor of Photography at the University of Houston. With her deep expertise in wet-plate collodion photography, the same process Cameron used in the 19th century, Keliy Anderson-Staley offers a rare, firsthand perspective on the techniques behind the images.

Together, they bring a rich combination of scholarship, curatorial insight, and approachability to the exhibition experience. Both have led walk-throughs of this exhibition for students and photography enthusiasts, bringing Cameron’s legacy into vivid conversation with the present.

KELIY ANDERSON-STALEY BIO:

Keliy Anderson-Staley is a 2022 Guggenheim Fellow who has been working in the wet-plate collodion photographic process since 2004. Her work has been exhibited widely, including at Akron Art Museum, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Riverside Art Museum, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Southeast Museum of Photography, Shelburne Museum, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, and Morris Museum of Art. She is Professor of Photography at the University of Houston.

www.andersonstaley.com

We’ll gather at 3:45 PM in the Morgan lobby before the one-hour tour begins at 4:00 PM

This intimate gathering is limited to 25 attendees.

Date: Friday, June 20, 2025
Time: Meet at 3:45 PM | Tour from 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Location: The Morgan Library & Museum, New York City
Cost: $15

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Whether you're interested in photography, history or simply passionate about visual culture, this is a rare chance to explore a major historical exhibition through the lens of two remarkable thinkers.

Arresting Beauty: Julia Margaret Cameron was created by the V&A – Touring the World.

The exhibition is made possible by generous support from the Sherman Fairchild Fund for Exhibitions, the Rita Markus Fund for Exhibitions, and Martha J. Fleischman, with additional support from the Photography Collectors Committee, the Berger Collection Educational Trust and the Berger Prize, David Dechman and Michel Mercure, and Mr. and Mrs. Livio Borghese.

Julia Margaret Cameron, Call, I Follow, I Follow. Let Me Die!, 1867. Carbon print, printed later RPS.735-2017. Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Please Note: if you are not an APA member, your ticket will be cancelled