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Jacob August Riis

♂  American, born Denmark. 1849–1914

Jacob August Riis has been in 11 exhibitions at MoMA, between 1949 and 1971.

11 exhibitions

EXHIBITIONS BY YEAR
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Photo of the exhibition The Exact Instant

8 February to 1 May 1949

Edward Steichen, Dorothea Lange, René d'Harnoncourt and W. Eugene Smith, among others, were involved.

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Then and Now

5–18 August 1952

Edward Steichen, Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler and Man Ray, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition 70 Photographers Look at New York

27 November 1957 to 15 April 1958

Edward Steichen, Alfred Stieglitz, Berenice Abbott and Helen Levitt, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Photographs from the Museum Collection

26 November 1958 to 18 January 1959

Edward Steichen, Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler and John Szarkowski, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition 30th Anniversary Special Installation - Towards the "New" Museum

18–29 November 1959

Edward Steichen, Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler and John Szarkowski, among others, were involved.

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50 Photographs by 50 Photographers

3 April to 15 May 1962

Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, John Szarkowski and László Moholy-Nagy, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Edward Steichen Photography Center

Started 27 May 1964

Edward Steichen, Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler and Man Ray, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition The Photographer's Eye

27 May to 23 August 1964

Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, John Szarkowski and László Moholy-Nagy, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Steichen Gallery Reinstallation

Started 25 October 1967

Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, Man Ray and László Moholy-Nagy, among others, were involved.

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Photographs Before Surrealism

3 April to 28 July 1968

Eugène Atget, André Kertész, Mathew B. Brady and Eadweard J. Muybridge, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition The Artist as Adversary

1 July to 27 September 1971

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Paul Klee and Georges Rouault, among others, were involved.