Museum of art and photography

In 1983, the Smithsonian American Art Museum began actively building its photography collection. That year, more than 1,500 photographs were transferred to the museum from the National Endowment for the Arts. Since then, the collection has grown to more than 9,000 works that span the history of the medium. SAAM's holdings include works by From its inception, SAAM’s photography program has focused on works that capture and address the conditions of everyday life in the United States. Embracing the diversity of the medium and its practitioners, SAAM collected the history of American photography as a story of invention and inventiveness, and exhibitions such as American Photographs: The First Century(1996) and A Democracy of Images(2013) were groundbreaking for their recognition of photography’s plurality. Deep holdings of works by individual artists include an extensive set of The American Monumentseries, the only publicly held set of A box of ten photographs, more than 100 works by Electricite, and more than 500 works by House Beautiful: Bringing the War Homeand Laura Aguilar’s Latina Lesbianseries, as well as Nicholas Nixon’s Brown Sistersseries and RFK Funeral Train. In 1989, the museum acquired the Consolidated Natural Gas Company Collection of more than 300 works by contemporary landscape photographers; in 1994, it acquired the Charles Isaacs Collection, with works by important American artists as well as vernacular material including western survey photographs, stereog...

Has photography always been considered art? Though widely accepted today as a medium in its own right, art museums have not always embraced photography. In fact, it wasn’t until the late 1970s and early 1980s that many museums began actively collecting and displaying photographs. Photography Is Art tells the story of American photographers’ efforts, from the late 19th century on, to explore and proclaim photography’s artfulness. Drawn from the Carter’s expansive and renowned photography collection, this exhibition reveals how artists shaped their medium’s artistic language. Explore the work in Photography Is Art from the comfort of your home with our new virtual exhibition tour!

May, 31, 2023 Board of Trustees and Leadership Photography Phoenix Art Museum and the Center for Creative Photography appoint new photography curator Emilia Mickevicius named the Norton Family Assistant Curator of Photography, a curatorial position shared between Phoenix Art Museum and the Center for Creative Photography PHOENIX (May 31, 2023) – Phoenix Art Museum (PhxArt) and the University of Arizona Center for Creative Photography (CCP) announce Emilia Mickevicius, PhD, as the newly appointed Norton Family Assistant Curator of Photography. Mickevicius will divide her time between the two institutions, working with CCP’s world-renowned collections to curate exhibitions that will be presented in Phoenix Art Museum’s Doris and John Norton Gallery for the Center for Creative Photography. She comes to PhxArt and CCP from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), where she has served as curatorial assistant in the photography department since 2019. Mickevicius begins her role on June 5, 2023. Emilia Mickevicius, PhD “We are thrilled to welcome Emilia Mickevicius to Phoenix Art Museum,” said Jeremy Mikolajczak, the Sybil Harrington Director and CEO of Phoenix Art Museum. “The Norton Family Assistant Curator of Photography position is integral to our valued and longstanding partnership with the Center for Creative Photography, and with her significant experience in researching and organizing exhibitions for institutions such as SFMOMA, the Art Institute of Chicago, and R...

East Building and West Building galleries Wednesday–Sunday, 10 am–5 pm Closed Mondays, Tuesdays, and some holidays (see below) Museum Store and Exhibition Store Wednesday–Sunday, 10 am–5 pm NCMA Café Wednesday–Sunday, 10 am–5 pm East Café Wednesday–Sunday, 10 am–4 pm Museum Park and Welcome Center Park open daily, including holidays, from dawn to dusk Welcome Center restrooms open daily dawn to dusk; food and retail hours seasonal, with current hours Wednesday–Sunday, 10 am–5 pm Gallery Holiday Closures • Easter: Sunday, April 9, 2023 • Thanksgiving, Thursday, November 23, 2023 • Christmas, Sunday, December 24–Wednesday, December 27, 2023 • Easter, Sunday, March 31, 2024 The Museum is located at 2110 Blue Ridge Road, in West Raleigh's Blue Ridge Corridor. Minutes from downtown and RDU Airport, the Corridor connects some of Raleigh's premiere health and wellness, arts and research, and entertainment and education organizations, including the North Carolina State Fairgrounds, PNC Arena, Carter-Finley Stadium, UNC Rex Hospital, and much more, alongside residential neighborhoods, retail, and restaurants. Learn more about the Corridor Explore a variety of engaging programs for toddlers, teens, and everyone in between. Make cool art, see live performances, or take a family-friendly tour of the Museum. Our programs and in-gallery materials invite you to look, talk, and interpret works of art together. • Learn more about amenities and • See • Find more information on Take public t...

Established as an independent curatorial department in 1992, The Met's Department of Photographs houses a collection of more than seventy-five thousand works spanning the history of photography from its invention in the 1830s to the present. Among the treasures from the early years of the medium are a rare album of photographs by William Henry Fox Talbot made just months after he presented his invention to the public; a large collection of portrait daguerreotypes by the Boston firm of Southworth and Hawes; landscape photographs of the American West by Timothy O'Sullivan and Carleton Watkins; and fine examples of French photography from the 1850s by Edouard Baldus, Charles Nègre, Gustave Le Gray, Henri Le Secq, Nadar, and others. The Met began collecting photographs in 1928, when Alfred Stieglitz, a passionate advocate of photography as a fine art, made the first of several important gifts to the Museum. In addition to superb examples of his own photography, his gifts comprise the best collection anywhere of works by the Photo-Secession, the circle of Pictorialist photographers shown at his influential gallery. The Stieglitz Collection is especially rich in large master prints by Edward Steichen; of special note are three large, unique prints of the Flatiron building, each a slightly different hue, evoking a different moment of twilight in the city. Also featured in the Stieglitz Collection are F. Holland Day, Adolph de Meyer, Gertrude Käsebier, Paul Strand, and Clarence Wh...