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A work made of gelatin silver print.

Screaming Child, Sestham Street 4657, 1956

Roger Mayne

Red and black colored photograph of an African American man with several scars on his back, the title etched in glass on top of the image.

Black and Tanned Your Whipped Wind of Change Howled Low Blowing Itself - Ha - Smack into the Middle of Duke Ellington's Orchestra Billie Heard It Too & Cried Strange Fruit Tears, 1995

Carrie Mae Weems

A colorful collage of individual magazine photos of Vietnamese citizens and American soldiers. A woman holds a white flag, another woman holds a blanket, a nude woman folds her hands over her vagina, and a man points directly at the viewer. Two soldiers hold guns, one with his back to the viewer, the other in silhouette. On the right, children look curiously to the viewer's left.

Playboy (On View), from the series House Beautiful: Bringing the War Home, 1967–72

Martha Rosler

A work made of silver dye-bleach print.

Medusa Marinara, 1997

Vik Muniz

Black-and-white photograph of two iconic skyscrapers in New York City, the Chrysler Building and the Daily News Building. The angles of the building intersect and light and shadow play off the windows of a building in the foreground.

Contrasting No. 331 East 39th Street with Chrysler Building and Daily News Building, Manhattan, November 9, 1938

Berenice Abbott

Color photograph of a bllond woman on a wooden chair surrounded by photography equipment, a wig form on a stand behind her.

Untitled, 1983

Cindy Sherman

A work made of nine gelatin silver prints, with chalk.

Estimations, 1970/87

Vito Acconci

A work made of book with photogravures.

Písmo a fotografie v reklame (Lettering and Photography in Advertising), 1938

Zdenek Rossman

A light-skinned woman, Pat Nixon, in an ornate room with dandelion-colored walls. Her skirt matches the wall color. She stands in front of the fireplace, smiling at the camera. Above the fireplace is a large black-and-white photo of a young woman curled in pain.

First Lady (Pat Nixon), from series House Beautiful: Bringing the War Home, 1967–72

Martha Rosler

A work made of gelatin silver print, no. 8 from "portfolio three: yosemite valley" (1959).

Water and Foam, c. 1955, printed 1959

Ansel Adams

A work made of album of collages of watercolor, ink, and albumen prints.

The Madame B Album, 1870s

Marie-Blanche Hennelle Fournier

A work made of platinum-palladium print.

Naomi Campbell, New York, July 13, 1994, printed April/May 1996

Irving Penn

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Blind boy who lost his arms during the war has learned to read with his lips, Rome, c. 1948

David Seymour

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Rebecca Salsbury Strand, 1922

Alfred Stieglitz

Monochrome photograph of a seated woman holding a baby in her lap. The woman's brow is furrowed as she looks into the distance, and her cardigan and checked shirt are worn and tattered. Two young children lean on her shoulders, facing away from the camera.

Migrant Mother, Nipoma, California, 1936, printed later

Dorothea Lange

A work made of gelatin silver print.

The Painter Otto Dix and His Wife, Martha, 1925/26, printed 1950/64

August Sander

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Little Girl Holding Cup, 1931/56

David Seymour

Color photograph of a well-lit living room with plushy sequined chairs, shag carpet, a glass table, balloons in the corner, and stairs leading out of the room. On the stairs, the photographic image of a medium-skinned Asian woman holding a baby has been superimposed. They look fearful.

Balloons, from the series House Beautiful: Bringing the War Home, 1967–72

Martha Rosler

A work made of chromogenic print.

Abstraction on Concrete, 1940/62

Howard Dearstyne

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

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