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Featuring iconic photographs that relate the history of
photography, The Best of includes masterworks from our collection
such as Ansel Adams's Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico; Edward
Weston's Pepper No. 30; Alfred Stieglitz's The Steerage; and Eddie
Adams's chilling Vietcong Executed. Included are photographic gems
such as Mathew Brady's portrait of Abraham Lincoln and the first
photograph of lightning. Celebrity portraits by Nickolas Muray and
Arnold Newman, images by Margaret Bourke-White, Cartier-Bresson,
Coburn, Cunningham, and many others are included. The exhibition
showcases variations of famous photographs, such as Lewis Hine's
Power House Mechanic alongside the other "runners-up" who posed for
Hine in the same set-up and two versions of Dorothea Lange's Migrant
Mother as evidence that "small adjustments" were made by the
photographer to arrive at her most celebrated image.
The exhibition is structured so that visitors will learn about
photography's history and development. Sixteen text panels guide
people from 1839 daguerreotypes and salted paper prints to a
contemporary daguerreotype and Jeff Marmelstein's image of a
dust-enveloped park and statue from September 11, 2001. Motion
pictures will be represented by 36 celebrity portraits, 3 posters, 2
sets of 8 lobby cards, press kits, a timeline panel of Buster
Keaton, and 14 didactic text panels.
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Edward Weston (American, 1886-1958). PEPPER NO. 30, 1930. Gelatin silver print. Museum purchase. |
