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PHOTOGRAPHY

Photography is one of the fastest growing areas of the museum’s collection, with works from the 1830s to today, primarily by American and European photographers. These include photographs by Hill and Adamson, Peter Henry Emerson, Berenice Abbott, Ilse Bing, Robert Capa, Aaron Siskind, Mike Disfarmer, Harry Callahan, William Eggleston, Carrie Mae Weems, Vik Muniz, Shirin Neshat, Rineke Dijkstra, Latoya Ruby Frazier, Zanele Muholi, and series by Ed Ruscha, Paul McCarthy, Rudolf Schwarzkogler, and Robin Rhode, among others.

The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University owns more than 10,000 works of art. As part of its mission, the Nasher Museum created this online database to make its collections accessible to a wide audience. This is an ongoing project, so please check back periodically to browse new entries. Some data may change as a result of ongoing research.

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Burial, Orange County, NC
Tom Rankin
2003
Platinum print
2014.19.1
Misses McCandlish
Robert Adamson
1843–1847
Salt print from calotype negative
2015.16.4
The Magic Garden
Josef Sudek
c. 1970
Gelatin silver print
2015.16.6
Marshman Going to Cut Schoof-Stuff from Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads
Peter Henry Emerson
1886
Vintage mounted platinum print
2014.28.15
Palestine War scenes in Jerusalem: Bulldozer driven by tractor driver from Kibbutz,
Robert Capa
1948
Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
2014.28.23
Hubert Walters
Susan Harbage Page
1995
Gelatin silver print
2015.13.1
Hunt Party, USA
Henri Cartier-Bresson
c. 1960
Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
2015.15.1
Untitled (Girl and Boy in Scouts Uniforms Flanking Woman in Dark Suit)
Mike Disfarmer
c. 1940
Vintage gelatin silver contact print
2015.16.2
Return to Florida, All in My Background: Piece
Jim Roche
1973–1974
Installation of eight pairs of gelatin silver prints and graphite works on paper
2016.19.1
The PRC Portfolio
Photographic Resource Center at Boston University
2008
2016.25.1.1-16
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