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Photography Highlights

The Gallery’s collection of photographs spans the medium’s history, with exceptional holdings of work made in America during the 20th century. Of particular distinction in the collection are master sets of work by Robert Adams and Lee Friedlander.

Rue Galande, Paris
Albino sword swallower at a carnival, Maryland
Untitled, from Easton Portraits
Old Hanford City Site and the Columbia River, Hanford Nuclear Reservation near Richland, Washington
U.S. 285, New Mexico
Family Tree
Dealey Plaza, Dallas
Longmont, Colorado, from the series What We Bought
Park City, Interior, 34, from the series Park City
Messenger Boy (Portrait of Richard Pierce)
Migratory Cotton Picker, Eloy, Arizona
Colorado