In Light of the Past: Twenty-Five Years of Photography at the National Gallery of Art
May 3 – July 26, 2015 West Building, Ground Floor, East Outer Tier Galleries
Roger Fenton, Fruit and Flowers, 1860, albumen print from collodion negative, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Paul Mellon Fund
In Light of the Past: Twenty-Five Years of Photography at the National Gallery of Art
Albert Sands Southworth, American, 1811–1894, and Josiah Johnson Hawes, American, 1808–1901, The Letter, c. 1850, daguerreotype, Patrons' Permanent Fund, 1999
In Light of the Past: Twenty-Five Years of Photography at the National Gallery of Art
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
In Light of the Past: Twenty-Five Years of Photography at the National Gallery of Art
Julia Margaret Cameron, British, 1815–1879, The Mountain Nymph, Sweet Liberty, June 1866, albumen print, New Century Fund, 1997
In Light of the Past: Twenty-Five Years of Photography at the National Gallery of Art
Clarence H. White, American, 1871–1925, The Hillside, c. 1898, gum dichromate print, Patrons' Permanent Fund, 2008
In Light of the Past: Twenty-Five Years of Photography at the National Gallery of Art
Paul Strand, American, 1890–1976, People, Streets of New York, 83rd and West End Avenue, 1916, platinum print, Patrons' Permanent Fund, 1990
In Light of the Past: Twenty-Five Years of Photography at the National Gallery of Art
In Light of the Past: Twenty-Five Years of Photography at the National Gallery of Art
Roy DeCarava, American, 1919–2009, Mississippi Freedom Marcher, Washington, D.C., 1963, gelatin silver print, Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation through Robert and Joyce Menschel, 1999
In Light of the Past: Twenty-Five Years of Photography at the National Gallery of Art
Lee Friedlander, American, born 1934, New York City, 1966, gelatin silver print, Trellis Fund, 2001
In Light of the Past: Twenty-Five Years of Photography at the National Gallery of Art
Robert Adams, American, born 1937, Colorado Springs, Colorado, 1974, gelatin silver print, Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon and Patrons' Permanent Fund, 2006
This exhibition is no longer on view at the National Gallery.
Overview: 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.
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.
Organization: The exhibition is organized by the National Gallery of Art.
Sponsor: The exhibition is made possible through the generous support of the Trellis Fund.
