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Introduction

Capturing the Light

150 Years of Photography
September 22 - November 12, 1989

Selected Objects

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American

Portrait of a Young Woman, mid 1800s
RISDM 83-190-2 v_01.jpg

American

Button with portrait of a young man, mid 1800s
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Julia Margaret Cameron

The Astronomer (John Frederick William Herschel), 1867
Z0041118.jpg

Harry Callahan

Eleanor, ca. 1947
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American

Untitled, 1800s
82.009 v_01.jpg

Nadar

Death-bed Portrait, ca. 1861
Z0044091.jpg

Brassaï

Picasso by the Stove, rue des Grands Augustins (Picasso au poele, rue des Grands Augustins), 1939
RISDM 1986-148.jpg

Conly Studio

Portrait of Cora Nash, late 1800s
No Image Available

Edward Sheriff Curtis

Bear Bull-Blackfoot, 1926
No Image Available

Paul Caponigro

White Deer, 1967
RISDM 70-062-6.jpg

Duane Michals

Untitled, 1900s
Z0054538.jpg

Roy DeCarava

Five Men, 1964, 1964
Z0046543.jpg

Lewis Wickes Hine

Jimmie Ridgeway, 8 Year-old Newsboy, early 1900s
Z0051998.jpg

Edward Weston

No. 6 Cypress-Point Lobos, 1930
RISDM 70-062-1.jpg

Duane Michals

Untitled, 1900s
No Image Available

Unknown artist

Untitled, late 1800s
RISDM 70-062-5.jpg

Duane Michals

Untitled, 1900s
RISDM 84-221.jpg

Man Ray

Portrait of Comte Etienne de Beaumont, 1925
Z0034419.jpg

Margaret Bourke-White

Untitled (Abstraction), 1933
Z0000604.jpg

Adolphe Braun

Alpine Lake, ca. 1858-1866
RISDM 81-208.jpg

Kusakabe Kimbei, studio

Sumo Wrestlers, 1863–1914
No Image Available

Jaroslav Rössler

Untitled, 1923-1924
RISDM 70-062-2.jpg

Duane Michals

Untitled, 1900s
No Image Available

Larry Fink

Birthday Party, Martins Creek, Pennsylvania, 1977
No Image Available

Charles Nègre

Le Midi de la France:CANNES, 1870
No Image Available

Mario Giacomelli

Untitled, 1968
RISDM 1987-103-1.jpg

E.J. Bellocq

New Orleans, 1911-1913
Z0054651.jpg

Gyorgy Kepes

Untitled, 1938
RISDM 85-087.jpg

Paul Strand

Lighthouse, New England, 1945
Z0042663.jpg

Gustave Le Gray

Ships Leaving the Port of Le Havre, ca. 1856-1857
Z0052128.jpg

Ansel Adams

Half Dome, Blowing Snow, Yosemite National Park, California, ca. 1955
Z0039760.jpg

Lewis Carroll

Brook Kitchin, ca. 1876
Z0020031.jpg

David Octavius Hill

Elizabeth Rigby (Lady Eastlake), ca. 1845
No Image Available

American

Untitled, ca. 1860
RISDM 70-062-7.jpg

Duane Michals

Untitled, 1900s
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Eadweard Muybridge

Animal Locomotion, Plate 469, 1887
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Diane Arbus

A Family One Evening in a Nudist Camp, Pennsylvania, 1965
Z0018500.jpg

August Sander

Circus Artists, Düren (Zirkusartisten), 1930, printed later
RISDM 1986-155 v_01.jpg

Anna Atkins

Lastroea Foenisecii, ca. 1854
Z0018685.jpg

Lisette Model

Running Feet, 5th Avenue, 1940
Z0051995.jpg

George A. Tice

Petit's Mobil Station, 1979
RISDM 70-062-8.jpg

Duane Michals

Untitled, 1900s
77.129.jpg

American

Portrait of Seven Victorian Beauties, mid 1800s
RISDM 81-075.jpg

Antoine-Samuel Adam-Salomon

Self-Portrait, ca. 1865
RISDM 1988-077 post_con.jpg

Seneca Ray Stoddard

The Adirondacks, Upper Au Sable Lake from Boreas Bay, 1887
No Image Available

Irving Penn

Cigarette No. 86, 1972
RISDM 70-009-1.jpg

Jean Eugène Auguste Atget

Vieille Cour, 8 rue Pavée, 1911
RISDM 70-062-3.jpg

Duane Michals

Untitled, 1900s
RISDM 75-010.jpg

James Van Der Zee

Dancer, Harlem, 1925
RISDM 75-067.jpg

Alfred Stieglitz

Torso, late 1800s - mid 1900s
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Edward Steichen

Portrait of Matisse with "La Serpentine", 1909
RISDM 76-093.jpg

Clarence H. White

Morning, 1905
RISDM 77-051.jpg

Clarence John Laughlin

"MOTHER" Brown, 1945
RISDM 70-062-4.jpg

Duane Michals

Untitled, 1900s
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Baron Adolph de Meyer

Flowers in a Vase, 1906
Z0039752.jpg

Robert Adamson

Edinburgh Castle from Greyfriars, between 1843-47
No Image Available

Peter Henry Emerson

Marsh Leaves, 1895
RISDM 80-003.jpg

Alvin Langdon Coburn

Gravure Mark Twain XXII: From Men of Mark, 1913
Z0018681.jpg

Frederick Sommer

Untitled, between 1962 and 1965
Z0051605.jpg

Harry Callahan

Ireland, 1979
No Image Available

Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton

Edith Sitwell as an Effigy, ca. 1926
RISDM 81-074.jpg

William Henry Jackson

Pike's Peak from the Garden of the Gods, ca.1880
No Image Available

Francis Bedford

Bathing Cabanas, ca. 1860-1870
RISDM 49-017-4.jpg

Gertrude Käsebier

Baron De Meyer with Grape Vine, late 1800s - early 1900s
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Imogene Cunningham

Agave 1, 1920
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Clarence H. White

Camera Work, 1903
No Image Available

American

Untitled, 1800s
Z0042582.jpg

Berenice Abbott

New York at Night, 1932
No Image Available

J. Pascal Sébah

1048. Louxor.Statue de Ramsès, late 1800s
RISDM 77-059.jpg

George N. Barnard

Nashville from the Capitol, 1864-1865
No Image Available

Dorothea Lange

She's a Jim Dandy, 1938
Z0020022.jpg

Emmet Gowin

Nancy, Danville, Virginia, 1969
No Image Available

Paul Graham

Waiting Room Poplar, DHSS, East London, ca. 1985
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Italian

Untitled (Roman aqueduct), late 1800s
RISDM 83-031-1.jpg

Aaron Siskind

Father Divine Movement, 1932-1940
No Image Available

Felix Bonfils

Pyramids of Gizeh, mid 1800s
Z0051996.jpg

Arthur Rothstein

Father and Sons Walking in the Face of a Dust Storm, Cimarron County, Oklahoma, 1936
No Image Available

Josef Breitenbach

Portrait of Bertoldt Brecht, 1900s
RISDM 81-050.jpg

Henry Hamilton Bennett

In and About the Dells of the Wisconsin River: Looking out of Boat Cave, No. 150, ca. 1890

More objects +

Exhibition Checklist

Capturing the Light : 150 Years of Photography

September 22 - November 12, 1989
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