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

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

Julia Margaret Cameron, British, 1815–1879, The Mountain Nymph, Sweet Liberty, June 1866, albumen print,
 New Century Fund, 1997

Clarence H. White, American, 1871–1925, The Hillside, c. 1898, gum dichromate print, Patrons' Permanent Fund, 2008

Paul Strand,
American, 
1890–1976, People, Streets of New York, 83rd and West End Avenue, 1916, platinum print,
 Patrons' Permanent Fund, 1990

André Kertész, 
American, born Hungary, 1894–1985, Clock of the Académie Française, 1929,
 gelatin silver print,
 Purchased as a Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation and The André and Elizabeth Kertész Foundation Fund, 1996. © Estate of André Kertész 2015

Robert Frank, American, born Switzerland, 1924, City of London, 1951, gelatin silver print, Robert Frank Collection, Purchased as a Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, 1991. © Robert Frank

Lee Friedlander, American, born 1934, New York City, 1966, 
gelatin silver print, Trellis Fund, 2001

Robert Adams, American, 
born 1937, Colorado Springs, Colorado, 1974,
 gelatin silver print,
 Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon and Patrons' Permanent Fund, 2006