Image: Boston Athenæum
The exhibition is on view June 16 through December 12, 2026, in the Norma Jean Calderwood Gallery.
In 1974, photographer Constantine Manos (1934–2025) spent nine months documenting Boston’s streets.
The photographs were originally commissioned for the 'Where’s Boston?' Bicentennial exhibition.
They include images of protests, parades, flea markets, diners and games, moving between public gatherings and private moments.
The photographs celebrate Boston’s diversity, community, and idiosyncrasies.
The exhibition frames the photographs through questions about community, race, access and how Boston’s spaces, identities and divisions have changed or remained the same over 50 years.
People and families appeared in the photographs or lived in the neighborhoods and communities that Manos documented.
