Coming Into Focus A $100,000 donation by retired MTSU photography professor Harold Baldwin will support plans to develop a new photography gallery in the John Bragg Mass Communication Building.
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The renovated space, to be dedicated later this year, will become the new permanent home of MTSU’s photography archive—a collection that Baldwin, who created MTSU’s photography program in the 1960s, pieced together over decades of service at MTSU.
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While a full appraisal has never been conducted on the collection, an independent assessment that Baldwin recently funded values it “easily in excess of a million dollars,” he says. But the value could be quite a bit more. One piece in the collection is a print of Ansel Adams’s most famous image, Moonrise, Hernandez, Mexico. The photographer reportedly produced only 1,300 of these prints, one of which sold at auction for more than $600,000 in 2006. Baldwin’s gift is part of MTSU’s ongoing $80 million Centennial Campaign.