Photography

The camera has played many overlapping roles in the history of artful communication on the page. A defining visual practice of the modern age, photography has exerted an ever-evolving influence as a medium of fine, commercial, and folk art; as a transformative mode of mass-market technology; and as an unparalleled means of visual documentation. The Morgan collects visually arresting photographs from fields of endeavor that the medium has helped to invent or to reinvent, including (to name but a few) advertising, art, book design, cartography, cinema, criminology, exploration, family history, glamour, journalism, medicine, politics, sports, and zoology. In these areas of activity and in others, the photograph has redefined what is beautiful, credible, memorable, shareable, and even perceptible.

Edouard Baldus

Edouard Baldus
French, b. Prussia 1813–1889

Amphitheatre, Arles

before June 1, 1860
Albumen from glass
13 3/8 x 16 9/16 inches (33.9 x 42 cm)

Gift of Sam J. D. Lehr

2012.74

Adolphe Terris

Adolphe Terris
1820–1900

Rue de Noailles, Marseille

1860–65
Albumen print
14 x 14 1/4 inches (35.56 x 36.2 cm)

Purchased on The Charina Endowment Fund

2013.86

Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carroll
British, 1832–1898

Edith, Lorina, and Alice Liddell on a sofa

Albumen print
6 x 6 15/16 inches (15.24 x 17.62 cm)

Gift of Arthur A. Houghton, 1987

AAH 650

Eugène Atget

Eugène Atget
French, 1857–1927

Cour de Rouen

1898
Albumen print
8 x 6 3/4 inches (20.32 x 17.15 cm)

Purchased on the Photography Collectors Committee Fund,

2015.46

Attributed to Pierre P. Pullis

Attributed to Pierre P. Pullis
American, 1870-ca. 1935

City Hall Subway Station

1904
Platinum print
7 1/2 x 9 3/8 inches (19.05 x 23.81 cm)

Purchased on the Goldsmith Fund for Americana

2013.16

Schadde Brothers Studio

Schadde Brothers Studio, Minneapolis

Ninety-One Brandle & Smith Candies

1910s
Printing-out paper print with applied colors
9 1/8 x 10 1/2 inches (23.18 x 26.67 cm)

Gift of David Winter

2013.92

Anonymous

Anonymous

Spectators on a hillside, some perched in trees

ca. 1920s
Commercially processed gelatin silver print
Sheet: 149 mm x 99.8 mm; image: 138 mm x 88 mm; mount: 167.8 mm x 122.9 mm

Gift of Peter J. Cohen

2015.119:214

John Lehr

John Lehr
American, b. 1975

Grate

2012
Pigmented inkjet print
20 x 25 1/2 inches (50.8 x 64.77 cm)

Purchased as the gift of Jane Watkins 

2013.15
Credits: 

Courtesy of the artist and Kate Werble Gallery, New York. © John Lehr

Chloe Finch

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Peter Hujar
1934-1987
1981
Gelatin silver print
sheet: 20 x 16 inches; image: 14 3/4 x 14 3/4 inches
Purchased on The Charina Endowment Fund.
2013.108:1.3
Provenance: 
Peter Hujar Archive, LLC., inventory number: EPH0020-1.
Inscription: 
Verso: stamp, "The Estate of Peter Hujar, Stephen Koch Executor, Printed by the Artist"; stamp, "Copyright 1981, The Estate of Peter Hujar, Not to be Reproduced Without Written Permission from the Estate"; stamp, "From the Estate #"; in pencil, "EPH 20-1"; signed in pencil, "Stephen Koch"; in pencil, "JD65101"; in pencil, "Chloe Finch, 1981"; in pencil, "HUJ 183"; in pencil, "19".
Summary: 

Full-length portrait of Chloe Finch, seating facing front and bouncing a ball between her knees. Taken in Hujar's studio.

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