Online Tour of NGA's Photographs
Images from the National Gallery of Art's Collection
The National Gallery of Art's website has a new feature that describes recent additions to its outstanding photography collection.
A new feature on the website of Washington, D.C.'s National Gallery of Art provides the user with an overview of the museum's expanding photography collection. Fifteen recently acquired works on paper by European and American photographers of the 19th and 20th Centuries are described in chronological order. Included are images by William Henry Fox Talbot, Roger Fenton, Julia Margaret Cameron, Eugène Atget, Charles Sheeler, László Moholy-Nagy, Berenice Abbott and Bill Brandt.
The feature's second section is a brief explanation of photographic processes and basic terminology.
The NGA's Photography Collection
The National Gallery of Art began collecting photographs in 1989 with a number of works by Americans Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, Ansel Adams, Walker Evans, Robert Frank and Harry Callahan. Now the museum owns over 9000 images by more than 250 photographers from Europe and the United States.
