The Delirious Joy of Looking: Building a Photography Collection, with W.M. Hunt

B&H Photography Podcast · Oct 15, 2020 · 1h 2m

On this week's episode of the B&H Photography Podcast, we welcome collector, curator, author, and educator W.M. Hunt. Part of the incredible photography collection Hunt has acquired over the years is being auctioned by the famed Christies auction house, and Hunt joins us to chat about the genesis of his collection, that hard-to-define attraction to an image that inspires a purchase, and his hopes for the current sale.

The collection that Hunt is selling is called "The Unseen Eye: Photos from the W.M. Hunt Collection," and it includes photographs by Richard Avedon, Sally Mann, Robert Frank…