Milwaukee Art Museum will host “True Story: Photography, Journalism, and Media,” a photography exhibition of works drawn from its collection that explore how images have affected how we view world events.

The show, with more than 100 objects – photographs, magazines, prints, collages and film – from this century and last, opens Nov. 15 in the Herzfeld Center for Photography and Media Arts on the museum’s lower level, and runs through March 16.

“Highlighting artworks significant to the Museum’s collection and the history of photojournalism, True Story demonstrates how images have had the power to shape the way we understand the events of our time,” says MAM Chief Curator Elizabeth Siegel.

There are works by Robert Capa, Eugene Smith, Lewis Wickes Hine, Wayne Miller, Danny Lyon, Larry Burrows, Christian Patterson, William Weege, Bruce Conner, Taryn Simon and Robert Heinecken that look at the Civil Rights Movement as the Vietnam War as well as a car crash, a parade and a Packers game.

You can see a sampling of the images included in the exhibition here.

“‘True Story’ provides a glimpse into the long relationship between news and photography,” added exhibition curator Ariel Pate, who is MAM’s assistant curator of photography.

“As the media landscape continues to grow and evolve, I hope our visitors gain an appreciation for media literacy as a crucial skill.”

The exhibition will be accompanied by a programming that includes a two-day World AIDS Day Commemoration, a Haberman Local Luminaries program, Gallery Talks and other events. Details are here.