Anywhere-Everywhere: Selections from the Peter J. Cohen Collection of Vernacular Photography | Oct 2 – Nov 12, 2026 | Occasions and Exhibitions | College of Visual Arts

BFA Visual and Critical Studies presents “Anywhere-Everywhere:Selections from the Peter J. Cohen Collection of Vernacular Photography” an exhibition of pictures from the Peter J. Cohen Collection of Vernacular Photography. The exhibition will likely be on view from Friday, October 2, by way of Thursday, November 12, 2026, with a gap reception on Thursday, October 8, from 6:00 – 8:00pm.

Vernacular pictures, nearly all the time nameless, might be portraits, landscapes, nonetheless lives; snapshots commemorating all kinds of events, from household gatherings to graduations, picnics to funerals. Often present in flea markets, vintage outlets and storage gross sales, they’re each paperwork and mysteries. Sometimes spontaneous, typically posed, vernacular pictures marks the transition—and availability— of pictures from the studio and the “Photographer” to the general public at massive due to available and inexpensive cameras.

The Peter J Cohen assortment—snapshots, on a regular basis images, discovered pictures and postcards—whole over 100,000 pictures relationship the whole twentieth century, into the twenty first. Energetically acquired over 30 years, the gathering reveals the eager eye of the collector safeguarding and honoring bizarre and extraordinary human habits and pursuits. Posed or not, the images are of a shared actuality of laughing, loving, grieving, celebrating, taking part in; all that we do after we do every thing and nothing.

The exhibition is organized by BFA Visual and Critical Studies college member Peter Hristoff (BFA 1981 Fine Arts) and curated by former and present BFA Visual and Critical Studies college students, together with: Bronwyn Alexander, Soomin Cho, Polina Dushenkovska, Vivienne Feinberg, Lucy Gaehring, Peter Hristoff, Rue Kim, Petra Kruty, Omari Lewis, Rachel Masefield, Anthony O’Donnell. Natalie Stratton, Molly Sullivan.