Through the Lens: American Photographs from the Carter Collection

Visitors can expect a broad look at American photography drawn from the Carter Collection, with work spanning documentary, artistic, and social perspectives. Joslyn describes the exhibition as a survey that includes landscape, street photography, photojournalism, and portraiture, showing how photographers helped build—and question—a national photographic tradition.

Through the Lens gives Omaha museumgoers a focused way to see photography as both evidence and expression: a record of American life and a medium shaped by composition, point of view, and historical context. At Joslyn Art Museum, the exhibition connects images of the nation’s landscapes, communities, and defining moments with larger questions about how the United States has been seen and remembered.