McMullen Museum Student Ambassadors' Art in Focus: Alen MacWeeney with Profs. Lisa Kessler & Greer Muldowney

From September 9 - December 8, 2019, the McMullen Museum Student Ambassadors' Art in Focus series featured: "Alen MacWeeney with Professors Lisa Kessler and Greer Muldowney." Kessler is Adjunct Professor of Photography and Muldowney is Assistant Professor of Photography in the Art, Art History, and Film Department. From their perspectives as both practicing photographers and photography educators engaged in the history of the field, Muldowney and Kessler discuss the street photography of Alen MacWeeney, which was exhibited at the McMullen Museum. MacWeeney is an Irish-American photographer, born in 1939, who was Richard Avedon's assistant in Paris. His photographs have appeared in celebrated magazines, such as The New Yorker, Life, Smithsonian, and American Photographer, and his work is present in many museum collections, ncluding the Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the McMullen Museum of Art.