Before the carefully crafted aesthetics of Instagram feeds, there were snapshots. Often spontaneous, usually imperfect, the pictures taken by twentieth-century amateur photographers feature slices of life and constitute important artifacts of our visual cultural history.

Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, a couple committed to higher education and advancing the arts, have donated over $2.8 million to UMMA to enhance and develop the Museum’s exhibitions program, ensuring that UMMA can continue to be a center of ambitious exhibition-making and interdisciplinary thinking.