Icons of American Photography: A Century of Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art

This exhibition presents 59 photographs chronicling the evolution of photography from a scientific curiosity in the 1850s to one of the most potent forms of artistic expression of the 20th century. The collection of American photographs at the Cleveland Museum of Art is known for its breadth, iconic imagery and stunning physical condition. Masters of the medium, like Matthew Brady, Timothy H. O’Sullivan, William Henry Jackson, Eadweard Muybridge, Clarence H. White, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, Paul Strand, Edward Weston, Imogen Cunningham, Margaret Bourke-White, James VanDerZee, Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, Robert Frank, and Aaron Siskind, are featured, and works encompass a variety of subject matter including portraiture, the Western landscape, Pictorialism, documentary photography, and abstraction.

This exhibition is organized by the Cleveland Museum of Art. This exhibition is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Submitted by The Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council
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