
Treasures of the Alfred Stieglitz Center: Photographs from the Permanent Collection
December 22, 2012 - April 7, 2013

Group of Leaves on a Tulle Background, 1864
Charles Aubry, French
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Treasures of the Alfred Stieglitz Center: Photographs from the Permanent Collection
December 22, 2012 - April 7, 2013
This exhibition showcases diverse highlights from the Museum’s photography collection,
tracing the medium’s history as a visual art form. Rarely seen nineteenth-century masterworks
by William Henry Fox Talbot, Gustave Le Gray, and Charles Aubry are complemented
by an array of modern and contemporary works, including recent acquisitions by artists such
as Charles Marville, Florence Henri, Roy DeCarava, Hiroh Kikai, and Joachim Koester. The centerpiece
of the installation is a group of works by Alfred Stieglitz (American, 1864–1946) and
Dorothy Norman (American, 1905–1997) reflecting their creative exchange in the 1930s and
1940s, which led Mrs. Norman to help found the Alfred Stieglitz Center at the Philadelphia
Museum of Art in 1968 through the gift of her extraordinary collection.
Curator
Curator: Peter Barberie, The Brodsky Curator of Photographs, Alfred Stieglitz Center
Location
Honickman and Berman Galleries, ground floor