photography. The collection is strong in early twenti-
eth century masters, Latin-American artists including
Mario Cravo Neto, Graciela Iturbide, and Sebastia ̃o
Salgado, photojournalism, post-World War II Amer-
ican photography, and social documentary and Soviet
Russian photography, including works by Russian
Constructivist Alexandr Rodchenko.
http://www.mopa.org
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
(SFMoMA)
Distinguished as one of the oldest photography col-
lections in the United States, SFMoMA began
acquiring photographs in 1935 from local contem-
porary photographers who would quickly come to
prominence across the nation as the f/64 Group.
Works by Ansel Adams and Imogen Cunningham
numbered among its earliest acquisitions. In the
1950s and 1960s, photographs by Jack Delano,
Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee, Arthur
Rothstein, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Weston, and
Marion Post Wolcott were acquired. Today, SF-
MoMA holds one of the nation’s foremost collec-
tions of photography.
http://www.sfmoma.org
Whitney Museum of American Art
Although photography featured in early exhibitions
overseen by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney as far
back as 1917 and has appeared in Whitney Bien-
nials since 1977, the Whitney Museum’s Photogra-
phy Collection was not formally established until
1992 with the first full-time curator appointed seven
years later. The exclusively American collection
now numbers well over 2,000 photographs.
http://www.whitney.org
KatherineBussard
SeeAlso:Art Institute of Chicago; Center for Crea-
tive Photography; Corporate Collections; Eastman
Kodak Company; Galleries; Library of Congress;
Museums; Museums: Europe; Museum of Modern
Art; Newhall, Beaumont; Private Collections; Stei-
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