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PHOTOGRAPHY

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PHOTOGRAPHY

Photography is a relatively new area of the collection that continues to grow. A major advance to the photography collection occurred in 1973, when funds from The Charles E. Merrill Trust were used to purchase approximately 100 important works. Photography holdings now number over 3,300, ranging from nineteenth-century works by such innovators as Anna Atkins, Eadweard Muybridge, Charles Marville, Giorgio Sommer, Charles Nègre, and Julia Margaret Cameron to masterworks by twentieth-century photography icons such as Berenice Abbott, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Alfred Stieglitz, Weegee, Edward Weston, Diane Arbus, Imogen Cunningham, Paul Caponigro, Walker Evans, Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, Lee Friedlander, and Garry Winogrand to more contemporary work including fine examples by Cindy Sherman, Gregory Crewdson, Richard Misrach, Laurie Simmons, Larry Sultan, Joel Sternfeld, Louise Lawler, Sherrie Levine, Rineke Dijkstra, Thomas Ruff, and Stephen Shore among many others. Several artists such as Margaret Bourke-White, Andreas Feininger, Siskind, Arnold Newman, Joel Meyrowitz, and Rollie McKenna are represented in depth. Strengths in the collection include portraiture and street photography. The collection continues to diversify, with recent additions by international artists and artists of color, as well vernacular photography, daguerreotypes, tintypes, and historical documentary photography.

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Hall of Columns, Karnac
Francis Frith
1857
Roman Aqueduct near Quattro Mile
Robert MacPherson
c. 1860
Rue Saint-Severin
Charles Marville
1865-1869
Thomas Carlyle
Julia Margaret Cameron
1867
Alla Nazimova
Napoleon Sarony Studio
1908
Untitled (Five children at doorway)
Lewis Wickes Hine
c. 1910
Blind Woman
Paul Strand
1916
Agave Design II
Imogen Cunningham
1920s
Luncheon at Lake George
Alfred Stieglitz
1920
Maison Close (brothel exterior)
Jean-Eugène-Auguste Atget
1921 (May)
Men's Fashions
Jean-Eugène-Auguste Atget
1925
Handlager
August Sander
1928
James Joyce
Berenice Abbott
1928
Two Men at Cricket Match
Henri Cartier-Bresson
1930s
Pepper No. 30
Edward Weston
1930
Coal Loader, Havana
Walker Evans
1932
Self-portrait
Alfred Eisenstaedt
1933
Self-Portrait
Margaret Bourke-White
c. 1933
Distortion #88
André Kertész
1933
Twist Dive
John Gutmann
1934
La Poupée (The Doll)
Hans Bellmer
c. 1935
Elevator Garage, Chicago
John Gutmann
1936
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