Description
A catalogue of the temporary exhibition with a vast collection of photographs by Augustus Francis Sherman, who portrayed immigrants arriving on Ellis Island at the beginning of the 20th century.
The author of the photographs, Augustus Francis Sherman was not a professional photographer, but an employee of the Registration Office of the Ellis Island Immigration Station from 1892 to 1925. Coming into contact with thousands of people arriving from other continents and representing different cultures, religions and customs, he created a remarkable documentation of over two hundred individual and group portraits of new arrivals to America during its most intense migration period. The immigrants, standing before the lens in their distinctive traditional costumes, made it possible for Sherman to create a multicultural picture of the world at that time.
