Over the years, she and her husband got to know many of the artists whose work they have collected.
I have collected his work since the mid-80's and am pretty obsessive about it.
The College has an active policy of collecting contemporary work by its staff, students and alumni.
What they were going to do with it no one seemed to know, not even those who were most active in collecting work.
The venturesome individuals who did collect such work were lucky, though.
The major focus of the collection is on collecting published work, in its effort to give a complete view of the 20th century.
Both the Modern and the Met collect work from throughout the history of photography.
Roth's son Darryl has been working on collecting and displaying his father's work.
"I've collected the artist's work from 1943 to 1962, and this is from one series that I was missing."
This Web-only existence, though, posed a problem when he decided to collect his work into a book last year.