Shoebox memories
A new exhibition at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts explores unclaimed snapshots from the past
by The Week Staff
July 9, 2015
Untitled, about 1920s-30s
(Gift of Peter J. Cohen/Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
Untitled, about 1950s
(Gift of Peter J. Cohen/Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
Untitled, mid-20th century
(Gift of Peter J. Cohen/Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)Unfinished Stories also draws strong parallels between its historic snapshots and modern-day images and their vernacular. In one c
Untitled, about 1930s-40s
(Gift of Peter J. Cohen/Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)The exhibition also underscores how physical photographs were once saved — a practice that has fallen out of vogue as we store all
