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In Light of the Past: Twenty-Five Years of Photography at the National Gallery of Art

Albert Sands Southworth, American, 1811–1894, and Josiah Johnson Hawes, American, 1808–1901, The Letter, c. 1850, daguerreotype,
 Patrons' Permanent Fund, 1999

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Gustave Le Gray, French, 1820–1884, The Pont du Carrousel, Paris: View to the West from the Pont des Arts, 1856–1858, albumen print,
 Patrons' Permanent Fund, 1995

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Julia Margaret Cameron, British, 1815–1879, The Mountain Nymph, Sweet Liberty, June 1866, albumen print,
 New Century Fund, 1997

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Clarence H. White, American, 1871–1925, The Hillside, c. 1898, gum dichromate print, Patrons' Permanent Fund, 2008

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Paul Strand,
American, 
1890–1976, People, Streets of New York, 83rd and West End Avenue, 1916, platinum print,
 Patrons' Permanent Fund, 1990

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André Kertész, 
American, born Hungary, 1894–1985, Clock of the Académie Française, 1929,
 gelatin silver print,
 Purchased as a Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation and The André and Elizabeth Kertész Foundation Fund, 1996. © Estate of André Kertész 2015

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Robert Frank, American, born Switzerland, 1924, City of London, 1951, gelatin silver print, Robert Frank Collection, Purchased as a Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, 1991. © Robert Frank

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Roy DeCarava, American, 1919–2009, Mississippi Freedom Marcher, Washington, D.C., 1963,
 gelatin silver print, 
Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation through Robert and Joyce Menschel, 1999

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Lee Friedlander, American, born 1934, New York City, 1966, 
gelatin silver print, Trellis Fund, 2001

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Robert Adams, American, 
born 1937, Colorado Springs, Colorado, 1974,
 gelatin silver print,
 Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon and Patrons' Permanent Fund, 2006

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