The Museum Collection of Photographs

20 June 1945 to 23 June 1946

Berenice Abbott
American, 1898–1991
41 exhibitions

Ansel Adams
American, 1902–1984
38 exhibitions

Robert Adamson
British, 1821–1848
13 exhibitions

Manuel Alvarez Bravo
Mexican, 1902–2002
20 exhibitions

Eugène Atget
French, 1857–1927
33 exhibitions

William H. Bell
American, 1830–1910
3 exhibitions

Mathew B. Brady
American, 1823–1896
21 exhibitions

Henri Cartier-Bresson
French, 1908–2004
36 exhibitions

Peter Henry Emerson
British, 1856–1936
14 exhibitions

Walker Evans
American, 1903–1975
49 exhibitions

David Octavius Hill
British, 1802–1870
21 exhibitions

Lewis W. Hine
American, 1874–1940
18 exhibitions

Dorothea Lange
American, 1895–1965
29 exhibitions

Helen Levitt
American, 1913–2009
28 exhibitions

Man Ray
American, 1890–1976
78 exhibitions

Lisette Model
American, born Austria. 1901–1983
23 exhibitions

László Moholy-Nagy
American, born Hungary. 1895–1946
73 exhibitions

Timothy O'Sullivan
American, born Ireland. 1840–1882
16 exhibitions

Eliot Porter
American, 1901–1990
21 exhibitions

Charles Sheeler
American, 1883–1965
85 exhibitions

Edward Steichen
American, born Luxembourg. 1879–1973
88 exhibitions

Alfred Stieglitz
American, 1864–1946
44 exhibitions

Paul Strand
American, 1890–1976
33 exhibitions

Edward Weston
American, 1886–1958
50 exhibitions

Cedric Wright
American, 1889–1959
5 exhibitions

24 June 1945

IN 1942 the Museum of Modern Art published a catalogue of its permanent collection, which then contained just short of 700 items.

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