Julianne Miao

As the 2021 Joan and Robert Huntley Scholarship recipient, Julianne Miao spent the summer studying the photography collections of the Ackland Art Museum and the NCMA. She is finishing her MA in art history at UNCâ€“Chapel Hill, working on American photography, and has a special interest in issues of race, gender, and commodification. In a collaboration between the Ackland and the NCMA, Miao investigates the question of what makes a photograph vernacular and complicates the distinctions museums make between vernacular and fine art photography.

How We Remember: Memory and Vernacular Photography

Arts and Exhibitions / Julianne Miao

NCMA intern Julianne Miao explores how photographers often memorialize unknown figures, raising provocative questions about their lives and relationships.

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