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EXHIBITIONS BY YEAR

Action Photography

18 August to 19 September 1943

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MoMA Staff

Director
Nancy Newhall  American, 1908–1974

Artists

Giacomo Balla
Italian, 1871–1958
26 exhibitions
Thomas Bouchard
2 exhibitions
Margaret Bourke-White
American, 1904–1971
20 exhibitions
Henri Cartier-Bresson
French, 1908–2004
36 exhibitions
Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre
French, 1787–1851
5 exhibitions
Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas
French, 1834–1917
57 exhibitions
Marcel Duchamp
American, born France. 1887–1968
49 exhibitions
Thomas Eakins
American, 1844–1916
17 exhibitions
Dr. Harold E. Edgerton
American, 1903–1990
17 exhibitions
Alfred Eisenstaedt
American, born Poland. 1898–1995
11 exhibitions
Eliot Elisofon
American, 1911–1973
16 exhibitions
Morris Engel
American, 1918–2005
8 exhibitions
Andreas Feininger
American, born France. 1906–1999
18 exhibitions
Arnold Genthe
American, born Germany. 1869–1942
12 exhibitions
International News Photo
3 exhibitions
Helen Levitt
American, 1913–2009
28 exhibitions
Remie Lohse
2 exhibitions
London Daily Mirror
1 exhibition
Étienne-Jules Marey
French, 1830–1904
4 exhibitions
Charles Martin
American, born 1952
4 exhibitions
Herbert Matter
American, born Switzerland. 1907–1984
22 exhibitions
Lisette Model
American, born Austria. 1901–1983
23 exhibitions
László Moholy-Nagy
American, born Hungary. 1895–1946
73 exhibitions
Barbara Morgan
American, 1900–1992
12 exhibitions
Mount Wilson Observatory
4 exhibitions
Eadweard J. Muybridge
American, born England. 1830–1904
16 exhibitions
Nadar (Gaspard-Félix Tournachon)
French, 1820–1910
11 exhibitions
Press Association
2 exhibitions
Oscar G. Rejlander
British, 1813–1875
2 exhibitions
Erich Salomon
German, 1886–1944
4 exhibitions
Sam Shere
3 exhibitions
Arthur Siegel
American, 1913–1978
6 exhibitions
Sovfoto
3 exhibitions
Peter Stackpole
American, born 1913
7 exhibitions
Alfred Stieglitz
American, 1864–1946
44 exhibitions
Paul Strand
American, 1890–1976
33 exhibitions
George Strock
3 exhibitions
William Henry Fox Talbot
British, 1800–1877
14 exhibitions
Twentieth Century Fox
1 exhibition
U.S. Army
2 exhibitions
U.S. Navy
American
5 exhibitions
William Vandivert
American, 1912–1992
13 exhibitions
Harry Warnecke
2 exhibitions
Yerkes Observatory
2 exhibitions
Charles Darwin
1 exhibition
H.J. Hagenguth
1 exhibition
Silas A. Holmes
1 exhibition
Arthur Palme
1 exhibition
Charles Payne
1 exhibition
Jess Strait
1 exhibition

New York Times Review of the exhibition

PUBLISHED

18 August 1943

DISPLAY OF PHOTOS OPENS HERE TODAY; Action Pictures From 1837 to Present Day to Be Seen at Museum of Modern Art

By Edward Alden JEWELL

The Museum of Modern Art, 11 West Fifty-third Street, has added to its extensive summer program a new exhibition. It is called "Action Photography" and installed in one of the main floor galleries, opens to the public today, scheduled to remain through Sept. 19.

New York Times • page 15 • 442 words