Tour: Selected Photographs from the Collection

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In the last few years the National Gallery of Art has significantly expanded its collection of photographs. Although the Gallery began actively acquiring photographs in 1989, the collection initially consisted primarily of the art of a few key twentieth-century American photographers: Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, Ansel Adams, Walker Evans, Robert Frank, and Harry Callahan. Since 1995 the museum has been adding photographs from a much broader spectrum and now has more than 9,000 nineteenth- and twentieth-century photographs in the collection, by more than 250 European and American photographers. This tour, drawn entirely from the Gallery's collection and from promised gifts, celebrates some of those recent additions, including works by pioneer photographer William Henry Fox Talbot, celebrated nineteenth-century master Julia Margaret Cameron, modernist artists such as Charles Sheeler and László Moholy-Nagy, as well as such observers of modern life as Bill Brandt. (continue)

Captions

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1	William Henry Fox Talbot, The Boulevards of Paris, 1843
2	David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson, A Newhaven Fisherwoman, 1844
3	Charles Nègre, Scène de Marché au Port de l'Hôtel de Ville, Paris (Market Scene at the Port of the Hotel de Ville, Paris), before February 1852
4	Roger Fenton, Moscow, Domes of Churches in the Kremlin, 1852
5	Francis Frith, The Ramasseum of El-Kurneh, Thebes, First View, c. 1857
6	John Moran, The Wissahickon Creek near Philadelphia, c. 1865
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7	Julia Margaret Cameron, The Mountain Nymph, Sweet Liberty, June 1866
8	Eugène Atget, Étang de Corot, Ville-d'Avray, 1900-1910
9	Charles Sheeler, Doylestown House--The Stove, 1917
10	Alvin Langdon Coburn, Vortograph, 1917
11	László Moholy-Nagy, Untitled (Positive), c. 1922-1924
12	Marianne Brandt, Untitled, 1930
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13	David Smith, Untitled, c. 1932-1935
14	Berenice Abbott, Vanderbilt Avenue from East 46th Street, October 9, 1935
15	Bill Brandt, Street Scene, London, 1936