Name: Member Hour - real/UNreal: Photographs from the Permanent Collection
Start: 2025-09-12T09:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-09-12T10:00:00-04:00
Location: 110 Salem Avenue, SE, Roanoke, VA, United States, Virginia 24011

$Member Hour - real\/UNreal: Photographs from the Permanent Collection$

Photography has been closely associated with ideas of objectivity and truth. Yet from the beginning, artists have tested those assumptions, manipulating images through staging, darkroom techniques, or later, digital tools, to bend reality or construct entirely fictitious scenes.
From the Museum’s permanent collection, the photographs in "real/UNreal" invite viewers to reconsider the trust we often place in them and remind us that every image carries choices, fictions, and the possibility of narrative. The works are not anomalies, but part of a long tradition of using photography to stretch, question, and reinvent what we call reality.
Please check-in at Visitor Services when you arrive, and we will meet in the Atrium and go to the galleries together.
Reminder: Members are encouraged to bring up to two paying guests with them to each Member Hour.
Registration requested.
Members: Free
Member Guests: $10