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Richard B. Woodward

Washington

Designing exhibitions of gifts from donors can be among the happier tasks for a museum curator. Weighty expectations attached to histories or retrospectives—is the scholarship innovative and sound?—are lifted, with neither critics nor the public going to see an argument.

The high number of outstanding and atypical prints in “Posing for the Camera: Gifts From Robert B. Menschel” is reason enough to visit the…