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CHARLES RICHARD MEADE, HENRY WILLIAM MATTHEW MEADE
Samuel Houston
1851
Daguerreotype
EDWARD STEICHEN
Trees, Long Island
1905
Carbon print on base of silver paint
Heinrich Kühn
Carafe and Flowers
c. 1913
Bromoil print
PAUL STRAND
Ceramic and Fruit
1916
Platinum print
EDWARD WESTON
Armco Steel
1922
Palladium print with toning
PAUL OUTERBRIDGE
Advertisement for the George P. Ide Company
1922
Platinum print
Eugène Atget
Rue de la Montagne-Sainte-Geneviève
1924
Albumen print
Ansel Adams
Cottonwood Trunks, Yosemite Valley, California
1932
Gelatin silver print
MANUEL ÁLVAREZ BRAVO
Los agachados (The Crouched Ones)
1934
Gelatin silver print
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Cardinal Pacelli, Montmartre, Paris
1938
Gelatin silver print
JOE ROSENTHAL
Old Glory Goes Up on Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima
1945
Gelatin silver print
ROBERT FRANK
Trolley, New Orleans, from the series "The Americans"
1955
Gelatin silver print
ISHIMOTO YASUHIRO
Untitled
1970
Gelatin silver print
CINDY SHERMAN
Untitled Film Still (#52)
1979
Gelatin silver print
ESTHER PARADA
Past Recovery
1979
100 gelatin silver prints with toning
Rudolf Bonvie
Piktogramm 2
1984
Chromogenic print
RICHARD MISRACH
Desert Fire #249
1985
Chromogenic print
LARRY SULTAN
My Father Reading the Newspaper
1985, printed 1987
Chromogenic print
JAN GROOVER
Untitled (#216.4)
1988
Chromogenic print
HATAKEYAMA NAOYA
Blast
2005
Chromogenic prints, diptych