For more than 40 years, Robert Bergman (b. 1944) has traveled the streets and back alleys of the United States, photographing the people and scenes he encounters. Beginning in the 1960s, he, like so many other so-called street photographers of that generation, used a 35mm camera to make black-and-white photographs. In the 1980s Bergman began to work in color. Using no special lighting or equipment, he made a series of monumental portraits of the people he met. The exhibition will present 33 of these compelling portraits from a recent gift to the Gallery of more than 90 photographs by Bergman, most of which have never before been exhibited.

Organization: Organized by the National Gallery of Art.

Schedule: National Gallery of Art, October 11, 2009–January 10, 2010

Passes: Passes are not required for this exhibition.

The exhibition is on view in the National Gallery's West Building, Ground Floor, Galleries 33-34.