Join Jeff Rosenheim, Curator in Charge of Photographs at the Met, for this charming little film. It gives a closer look at the extraordinary group of tintypes from the William L Schaeffer Collection featured in the exhibition, The New Art: American Photography, 1839-1910, which is on view at the Met through July 20, 2025.
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