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![Engagement Intern Charlotte Smith ’24 looking at two photographs by Lynsey Addario. Engagement Intern Charlotte Smith ’24 looking at two photographs by Lynsey Addario.](https://artmuseum.mtholyoke.edu/sites/default/files/styles/image_large/public/FINAL_blog_banner__jan2023.jpg?itok=YxV6UvFO)
Engagement Intern Charlotte Smith ’24 reflects on her class visit to the Art Museum as part of Professor Serin Houston’s Fall 2022 geography course “Global Movements.” She describes close-looking activities in the Museum galleries and shares her newfound connections within the disciplines of art history and geography.
![Jon Western and Pete Muller Jon Western and Pete Muller](https://artmuseum.mtholyoke.edu/sites/default/files/styles/image_large/public/event_2017sp_lecture_mar30_v072-hpr.jpg?itok=opNrJ5is)
Video recording of a conversation between photographer Pete Muller and Dean of Faculty Jon Western
![Photographs from the Ann Zelle Collection Photographs from the Ann Zelle Collection](https://artmuseum.mtholyoke.edu/sites/default/files/styles/image_large/public/collage_flat.jpg?itok=DLsaRIul)
Ann Zelle '65 still has pictures that she took with her first camera, a Kodak Baby Brownie. Throughout her life, she has created, taught with, and collected photographs, focusing on the social and technological histories they embody and document. In this first installment of the column Alumnae in the Arts, Zelle reflects on her instinct to record the world she lives in by making and saving photographs. She recently gifted to MHCAM works by 20th-century photographers Lisette Model and August Sander, as well as a collection of over 200 American vernacular images.
![Maker Unknown (American), 2 photographs, ca. 1940s Maker Unknown (American), 2 photographs, ca. 1940s](https://artmuseum.mtholyoke.edu/sites/default/files/styles/image_large/public/roscoe_double_1.jpg?itok=bm5irhOH)
Recent Mount Holyoke graduate Emma Kennedy '16 reflects on her work with a collection of photographs gifted to MHCAM by Ann Zelle '65. During her curatorial internship at the Museum, and in her research for a final paper, Kennedy contemplated the mysteries of these compelling vernacular images.
![Rosamond Wolff Purcell (American, b. 1942), Passenger Pigeon (detail), 2008 capture; 2013 print](https://artmuseum.mtholyoke.edu/sites/default/files/styles/image_large/public/mh_2013_28_v1_01-hpr_crp1.jpg?itok=-Mgnxtzc)
In 2008, Boston-based photographer Rosamond Wolff Purcell made a series of images of natural history specimens at the Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology in California. In the newest installment of the mhcameo series Objects of Our Affection, Professor of English Elizabeth Young discusses one photograph from that series, Purcell's beautiful, beguiling Passenger Pigeon. Young describes her recent immersion in the mysterious world of taxidermy, and recounts the fascinating history of the now-extinct passenger pigeon.
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