Current Projects
The August Sander Project: A Five Year Research Initiative
MoMA Acquires Hundreds of August Sander Photographs
Graham Bowley, The New York Times, 2015
Sarah Hermanson Meister, Curator in MoMA’s Department of Photography, at the inaugural August Sander Project symposium, September 16, 2016. Photo: Scott Rudd
Still from “Sarah Meister,” from “Seeing Through Photographs” (© 2016 The Museum of Modern Art)
Seeing Through Photographs, a free online course on Coursera
Testing the Possibilities of Online Education with Museum MOOCs
Julia Friedman, Hyperallergic, 2016
Posts and Online Articles
Hank Willis Thomas. So Glad We Made It, 1979. 2006. Chromogenic color print, 24 × 27 15/16” (60.9 × 71 cm). Fund for the Twenty-First Century. © 2020 Hank Willis Thomas
Hank Willis Thomas’s Colonialism and Abstract Art
MoMA Magazine. September 15, 2020
Tina Barney. Fun Slide. 2017. © Tina Barney. Courtesy the artist
Summers and Sundays with Tina Barney
MoMA Magazine. August 5, 2020
Gordon Parks. Harlem Rally. 1963. Gelatin silver print, 13 3/16 × 19 1/16” (33.5 × 48.5 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of the artist in honor of Edward Steichen. © 2020 Gordon Parks Foundation
Gordon Parks: Seeing Color in Black and White
MoMA Magazine. July 14, 2020
Walker Evans. Truck and Sign. 1928–30. Gelatin silver print, 5 3/8 × 9 3/16’ (13.7 × 23.3 cm). © 2020 Walker Evans Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Now Is the Time to Read Photography Books
MoMA Magazine. May 27, 2020
Dorothea Lange. Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California. March 1936. Gelatin silver print, printed 1949, 11 1/8 × 8 9/16" (28.3 × 21.8 cm). Purchase
Piecing Together Lange’s Migrant Mother
MoMA Magazine. February 6, 2020
Robert Frank. Paris. 1950. Gelatin silver print. Gift of the artist. © 2017 Robert Frank
Remembering Robert Frank (1924-2019)
MoMA Magazine. September 12, 2019
Robert H. McNeill. Lula Cooper Beauty Salon. c. 1940. Gelatin silver print, 7 3/16 × 9 1/2" (18.2 × 24.1 cm). Acquired through the generosity of The Friends of Education of The Museum of Modern Art and Committee on Photography Fund
Looking and Learning with Toni Morrison (1931-2019)
MoMA Magazine. August 9, 2019
The Hampton Album, limited and trade editions
The Whole Picture
MoMA Magazine, May 3, 2019
Eugène Atget. Notre-Dame. 1925. Gelatin silver printing-out-paper print, approx. 7 x 8 7/8” (17.8 x 22.5 cm). Abbott-Levy Collection. Partial gift of Shirley C. Burden
Notre Dame, an Inspiration
MoMA Magazine. April 17, 2019
Unknown photographer. The Story of My Life and Friends as Told by Snapshots from Fourteen On (1916-23) Gift of Peter J. Cohen
Quora Session with Sarah Meister
Quora. June 27, 2016
Brassaï (Gyula Halász). Untitled (Pablo Picasso’s Face, 1946). 1946. Gelatin silver print, 8 7/8 x 11 5/16″ (22.6 x 28.7 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Purchase. © Estate Brassaï-RMN
Larger Than Life: Picasso’s Sculpture through Brassaï’s Lens
MoMA INSIDE/OUT. December 22, 2015
Installation view from the exhibition Family of Man, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, January 24–May 8, 1955. Edward Steichen Archive, V.B.i. The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York. Photo: Ezra Stoller
Thanks to The Family of Man Fund
MoMA INSIDE/OUT. December 15, 2015
From left: Eugène Atget. Marchand de paniers en fil de fer. 1899–1900. Albumen silver print, printed 1978 by Chicago Albumen Works. Abbott-Levy Collection. Partial gift of Shirley C. Burden; Eugène Atget. Marchand de paniers en fil de fer. 1899–1900. Gelatin dry plate negative. Abbott-Levy Collection. Partial gift of Shirley C. Burden
Eugène Atget: Black Smoke and White Shadows
MoMA INSIDE/OUT. February 7, 2012
Hannah Höch. Indian Dancer: From an Ethnographic Museum. 1930. Cut-and-pasted printed paper and metallic foil on paper. The Museum of Modern Art. Frances Keech Fund. © 2010 Hannah Höch/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Germany
Pictures of Women
MoMA INSIDE/OUT. May 26, 2010
Helen Levitt. New York. 1971. Chromogenic color print, 18 x 11 15/16" (45.7 x 30.3 cm). Gift of Marvin Hoshino
Levitt in Color
MoMA INSIDE/OUT. March 4, 2010
Book Reviews
Frances Benjamin Johnston, The Hampton Album ed. Sarah Hermanson Meister. Cover of the trade edition.
Frances Benjamin Johnston, The Hampton Album
Richard Woodward — Collector Daily
June 20, 2019
Edward Wallowitch. Angel Baby. circa 1950. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of the artist. © Estate of Edward Wallowitch
A ‘Family of Man’ Reunion by
David Gonzalez, Lens Blog — The New York Times
October 29, 2015
Walker Evans. Parked Car, Small Town Main Street. 1932. Gelatin silver print, 5 1/2 x 8 15/16" (14 x 22.7 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Lily Auchincloss Fund. © 2016 Walker Evans Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
A New Look at Walker Evans’s ‘American Photographs’
David Gonzalez, Lens Blog — The New York Times
August 8, 2013
Selected Articles
Aperture Magazine #236, Fall 2019
Members Only. Looking back at Mexico City’s photo clubs. By Sarah Hermanson Meister
Osmos, Issue 10, 2016
Sarah Meister on Jan Groover’s 1973 artist book The Attributes of Positions: Semantics of the Highway
“(Almost) Due North: Brazilian Photography at MoMA”. SP-Arte/Foto 2015 Feira de Fotografia de São Paulo. São Paulo: SP-Arte, August 2015. pp. 106-114 (Portuguese) and 145-147 (English)
Regina Silveira: Enigmas. Aperture #215 (Summer 2014). pp. 106-109
Horacio Coppola. Aperture #213 (Winter 2013), pp. 116-121
Eugène Atget Pendant L'Eclipse. Osmos, Issue 01 (Summer 2013) Cover. Osmos, Issue 01 (Fall 2013). pp. 34-39