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.
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Photography
Edouard Baldus
Amphitheatre, Arles
Adolphe Terris
Rue de Noailles, Marseille
Eugène Atget
Cour de Rouen
Pierre P. Pullis
City Hall Subway Station
Schadde Brothers Studio, Minneapolis
Ninety-One Brandle & Smith Candies
Gravelle Studio
Joint Meeting of the Railway Surgeons Association, Claypool Hotel, Indianapolis
Anonymous
Spectators on a hilltop, some perched in trees"
Louis Faurer
Woman in Bath
Hans Namuth
Jackson Pollock Painting
Malick Sidibé
Chemise, 1966
Duane Michals
The Illuminated Man
Peter Hujar
Gay Liberation Front Poster Image
Robert Cumming
Academic Shading Exercise
Peter Hujar
Chloe Finch
John Lehr
Grate
Christine Dalenta
Chiaroscuro, Rectangles
Nina Katchadourian
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, from the series Look Who's Talking, 2022