A Gift of Photographs from John Hagefstration

In this collection focus installation, you see a selection of the works given to the BMA by Hagefstration in 2020. In 2020 he gave 201 works, building on a group of nearly 100 other photographs he had donated over the previous sixteen years. Hagefstration purchased many of these photographs with the goal of strengthening the Museum’s photography collection. These photographs were made from the early twentieth century to the present. They capture significant episodes in the development of the medium, allowing us to better represent the history of movements, schools of photography, and the work of individual artists in new depth. His collection also expands the diverse perspectives featured in our collection, including new works by Alabama artists, women artists, and LGBTQIA+ artists. Visit this focus installation of fourteen photographs to see how the Museum’s collections have recently grown.