Photographs

The CMP's photography collection exceeds 20,000 images that were created by over 1,000 photographers. The museum cares for vintage works by such artists as Ansel Adams, Yolanda Andrade, Manuel Alvarez-Bravo, Walker Evans, Francis Frith, Danny Lyon, Barbara Morgan, Albert Renger-Patzsch, and Carleton Watkins. Some of the other artists represented in this collection are: Berenice Abbott, Eugene Atget, Larry Clark, Linda Connor, William Eggleston, Robert Frank, Flor Garduño, Philippe Halsman, Lewis Hine, Gertrude Kasebier, Kusakabe Kimbei, Mary Ellen Mark, Susan Meiselas, Pedro Meyer, Olivia Parker, Holly Roberts, and Garry Winogrand. (Due to copyright restrictions, not all works are online.) The collection is complemented with historic processes including daguerreotypes, calotype negatives, ambrotypes, tintypes, and cyanotypes.

1840-1900

This set contains a selection of ninteenth-century photographs from the CMP's collection, including cased photographs, card photographs, calotype negatives, and fine albumen prints. Additional nineteenth-century subjects can be found within "Research Collections."

1901-1944

This set contains a selection of modernist photographs from the CMP's collection, including fine art photographs and vernacular imagery.

1945-2000

This set contains a selection of contemporary photographs from the CMP's collection, including fine art photographs and vernacular imagery.

2001-present

This set contains a selection of fine art photographs from the CMP's collection made in the twenty-first century.