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Art Institute Chicago
Harvard art museum
My Exhibition

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Rodney Plogger at 6:01, from the series "Immediate Family", 1989

Sally Mann

Black-and-white horizontal photograph of people in a temporary encampment, ruins in the background.

Refugee Camp, Ruins in Background, San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, April 1906, printed 1956

Arnold Genthe

Black-and-white photograph of broken brick pillars, stone wall panels with pointed arches, and a prominent belltower.

Ruins of Church Looking North-East or East; Yerba Buena Island in far Right Distance) San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, April 1906, printed 1956

Arnold Genthe

A work made of photogravure, plate no. 5 from "research on photography with röntgen rays (versuche über photographie mittelst der röntgen’schen strahlen)".

Table of the Permeability of Various Substances to Roentgen Rays, 1896

Josef Maria Eder

A work made of chromogenic print, from the 1993 graduate/faculty photography portfolio.

Woman in Tears, 1993

Karen Savage

Sepia-colored, blurry photo of a grim-faced man in a flat-topped hat posing next to a cannon. A small, blurred figure sits on top of the cannon while another figure, in uniform with a rifle at his side, stands at left.

The cannon 'Mons Meg' at Edinburgh Castle, and a private in the 2nd battalion of Royal Scots who garrisoned the Castle in 1846, 1846

David Octavius Hill

Black-and-white photograph of identical light-skinned, dark-haired girls. They stand shoulder-to-shoulder facing the viewer, wearing identical black dresses with white collars, white tights, and white headbands. The girl on the right smiles with closed lips, while the other does not.

Identical Twins, Roselle, N.J., 1966

Diane Arbus

A work made of photogravure.

Reflection-Venice, from the portfolio "American Pictorial Photography, Series I" (1899); edition 146/150, c. 1897

Alfred Stieglitz

Color photograph of a cemetery, a large open grave in the foreground with a rumpled tarp and pile of gravel nearby. The grave is filled with water and marine life, including several starfish.

The Flooded Grave, 1998–2000

Jeff Wall

A work made of gelatin silver transparency on light panel.

#352 Kashimagawa, 1998

Tokihiro Sato

Black-and-white photograph of a naked young boy seen from the neck down, dark liquid drips down his legs.

Popsicle Drips, from the series "Immediate Family", 1985

Sally Mann

Photograph of pink bathroom with flowered curtains, two women in pink bathrobes stand in the back by a window.

Jill and Polly in the Bathroom, 1987

Tina Barney

A work made of chromogenic print.

May Pole, Short Mountain Sanctuary, Liberty, Tennessee, from the series "Sweet Earth: Experimental Utopias in America", May 2005

Joel Sternfeld

Flavia Flavin, 1945

Johan Hagemeyer

Black-and-white view down a steeply sloping street lined by pedestrians and crumbling buildings. Thick smoke billows in the distance.

The Burning City, San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, April 1906, printed 1956

Arnold Genthe

Black-and-white photograph of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo Rivera looking into the distance with a half-smile. She is topless, but as she leans forward holding a cigarette, elbow on her knee and chin in her hand, her breasts are obscured. She wears jewelry and a large white flower in her hair.

Frida Kahlo Rivera, c. 1935

Julien Levy

Black-and-white photograph taken outdoors of a naked girl being held out by a man in jeans and a long-sleeved shirt. The child, whose platinum-blond hair is unkempt, stares directly at the viewer.

Untitled, 1982

Jock Sturges

A work made of photogravure.

Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty, No. 1 from the portfolio "American Pictorial Photography, Series I" (1899); edition 146/150, 1896/97

F. Holland Day

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Cooking on the street, San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, April 1906, printed 1956

Arnold Genthe

A work made of gelatin silver print.

A Family One Evening In A Nudist Camp, Pennsylvania, 1965

Diane Arbus