THIRTEEN PHOTOGRAPHERS have been selected for the Framing a Century: Master Photographers, 1840-1940, each with 10 -12 works, to represent the different styles and stages of the development of the medium.
Half of the works in the show comes from a recent acquisition of Gilman Collection of 8,500 works.
Artists exhibited: William Henry Fox, Walker Evans, Man Ray, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Brassai, Roger Fenton, Gustave Le Gray, Carleton E. Watkins, Nadar, Julia Margaret Cameron, Charles Marville, Édouard Baldus and Eugène Atget.
New York, USA
Framing a Century: Master Photographers
3 June 2008 – 1 September, 2008
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Walker Evan, Kitchen Corner, Tenant Farmhouse, Hale County, Alabama, 1936. The Metropolitan Museum of Art
