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Capturing the Light

150 Years of Photography
September 22 - November 12, 1989

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Ansel Adams

Half Dome Blowing Snow, Yosemite National Park, California

Unknown Maker, American

Portrait of a Young Woman

Unknown Maker, American

Portrait of Seven Victorian Beauties

Frederick Sommer

Untitled

Gustave Le Gray

Ships Leaving the Port of Le Havre

Alfred Stieglitz

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Baron Adolph de Meyer

Flowers in a Vase
Black and white photo of an awkward, naked, light-skinned family reclined on grass. The lumpy woman only wears sandals. The equally lumpy man appears naked. The adolescent child wears shorts.

Diane Arbus

A Family One Evening in a Nudist Camp Pennsylvania
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