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A work made of gelatin silver print.

The Flatiron, 1903, printed 1920/39

Alfred Stieglitz

Black-and-white photograph of four brown-skinned figures. A woman in a white wedding dress and veil is seated in the center, holding a bouquet of flowers. She is flanked by two standing men wearing tuxedos, and one standing woman who wears an elaborate dress and holding flowers. The painted backdrop is a faux classical scene, with an arch and a fake window.

Wedding Party of Four, 1927

James VanDerZee

Drawing of Jesus Christ carrying cross, soldier jabbing with staff, crowd following.

The Road to Calvary, 1475/80

Master of the Housebook

Gold porcelain vase with flowers, birds, profile heads on handles

Artichoke, Halved, 1930, printed 1953/54

Edward Weston

A work made of soft ground etching, drypoint, aquatint, and etching on buff laid paper.

Mary Cassatt at the Louvre: The Etruscan Gallery, 1879–80

Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas

A work made of gelatin silver print.

"Hot Coffee," Mojave Desert, 1937, printed 1953/54

Edward Weston

A work made of 148 gelatin silver prints and text panel.

CARVING: A Traditional Sculpture, 1972

Eleanor Antin

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Lisa Lyon, 1981

Robert Mapplethorpe

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Nude No. 100, New York, 1949/50, printed 1949/50

Irving Penn

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Portrait of Rosette Loewenstein, 1922/59

Ansel Adams

Black-and-white photograph of a seated black man who is receiving medical care from two other individuals. The man has an anguished expression, with his mouth open in pain, and he wears a button-up shirt that is spattered with blood. The brown-skinned person on the man's right, whose back is to the camera, tends to the man's right eye. On the left a white-skinned person reaches into the frame, and holds the man's head steady.

Battered Man, 1948

Gordon Parks

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Nude No. 57, New York, 1949/50, printed 1949/50

Irving Penn

A work made of gum bichromate print.

Self-Portrait with Brush and Palette, 1902

Edward Steichen

A work made of platinum-palladium print.

Leggy Nude, New York, 1993, printed March/May 1994

Irving Penn

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Rose and Driftwood, San Francisco, California, c. 1932

Ansel Adams

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Antique Shop, Pine Street, Philadelphia, 1938, printed 1990

Irving Penn

A work made of gelatin silver print.

3 Chanel Products, New York, 1968, printed 1992

Irving Penn

Black-and-white photograph of an elevated train station straddling a crowded city street on which vehicles are either parked or blurred by motion.

"El", Sixth Avenue Line, Twenty-Eighth Street Station, Manhattan, November 10, 1938

Berenice Abbott

A work made of platinum-palladium print.

Truman Capote, New York, 1965, printed 1986

Irving Penn

A work made of albumen print, from the album "vistas del mar".

Brig on the Water, 1856

Gustave Le Gray

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