The exhibition The New Eye was part of a collaborative and interdisciplinary research project on photography and film during the interwar period, 1919–1939. The projected started 2017 and included three international research symposiums: Photography, Experiment and Social Change (2017) Interwar Lens Cultures – Photography and Film in Transition (2018) and Interwar Lens Cultures – Photography and Film around 1929 (2019). The aim of the symposiums was to investigate the current research field, and to develop and delimitate the research area and question. The focus of the research was to investigate film and photography not primarily as separate mediums, but more as connected lens cultures, which during the 1920s and 1930s became fully integrated in society at large. It was a time period characterized by large technical, political, economical and social changes, and the project investigated what role and how the lens media cultures played in these transformations, but also how film and photography were changed and developed during the interwar period. The exhibition was a part of the research method and it was both a vehicle to do share research findings and a place for experimentation and investigation. During the three years long planning for the exhibition we did archival research and went through different collections of film and photographs in museums and institutions. The focus on objects and material culture was an important part of the research idea and theoretical frame. The exhibition venue became a spatial place for displaying and curate artifacts, and with the montage as method unfold and create histories where photography and film where interwoven with each other, and with society and its different uses of lens media. As an inspiration and a template for The New Eye we used the International Photo Exhibition in Gothenburg from 1929. It was shown in the different sections we used and how the objects in the exhibition were displayed. Particular emphasis was put on how photography and film were circulated and shared through printed matter and in the public space. One important part of the research outcome is the anthology Thresholds: Interwar Lend Media Cultures 1919–1939, edited by Niclas Östlind, Louise Wolthers and Mats Jönsson and published in English by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König 2021. As part of the editorial process, we arranged a work-in-progress workshop with the writers 2020 discussing the content and perspectives of the individual contributions. The book includes new essays by 18 writers and an introduction by the editors.