Gustave Le Gray, French, 1820–1884, The Pont du Carrousel, Paris- View to the West from the Pont des Arts, 1856–1858, albumen print,? Patrons' Permanent Fund, 1995
Expositions du 6/5/2015 au 26/7/2015 Terminé
National Gallery of Art 6th Street & Constitution Avenue NW DC 20565 Washington, France
Some 175 masterpieces will be featured from the National Gallery's photography collection, all acquired within the last quarter century. Highlighting exquisite nineteenth-century works and turn-of-the-century pictorialist photographs; exceptional examples of international modernism from the 1920s and 1930s and seminal mid-twentieth-century American photography; as well as photographs exploring new directions in color and conceptual art from the 1960s and 1970s, the exhibition demonstrates the richness of the National Gallery’s photography collection and showcases the vitality of the medium as an art form, from its birth through the end of the twentieth century.National Gallery of Art 6th Street & Constitution Avenue NW DC 20565 Washington, France
The curators of the exhibition are Sarah Greenough, senior curator and head of the department of photographs, and Diane Waggoner, associate curator, department of photographs, National Gallery of Art.
© Julia Margaret Cameron, British 1815-1879 The Mountain Nymph Sweet Liberty,
June 1866 albumen printe New Century Fund 1997
© Albert Sands Southworth, American, 1811–1894, and Josiah Johnson Hawes, American, 1808–1901,
The Letter, c. 1850, daguerreotype,
Patrons' Permanent Fund, 1999
