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Photography Galleries
Third floor
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The Edward Steichen Photography Galleries are
devoted to a rotating selection of outstanding photographs from
the Museum's collection. Each new display is organized differently,
but all aim to suggest the vitality and richness of photography's
creative traditions. The current installation brings together groupings
of closely related pictures. Since photography's inception, photographers
have explored the medium's ease in producing multiple images to
create sequences, consider variant aspects of a single subject,
and accumulate pictures that together define a larger subject. Some
groups of photographs presented in this display constitute a single
work of art, while others are selected from a larger body of work
that explores one motif. The display presents groups of photographs
by Eadweard J. Muybridge, Alfred Stieglitz, August Sander, Harry
Callahan, Diane Arbus, Thomas Struth, and Roni Horn, among others.
Bernd
and Hilla Becher: Landscape/Typology
July 3–November 3, 2008
Pictured above:
Eadweard J. Muybridge. Plate 189 from Animal
Locomotion. 1884–86. Collotype, 7 3/8 x 16 1/8" (18.8 x
40.9 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Mrs. Jane K.
Murray
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