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Currently on View
Looking In: Robert Frank's The Americans
September 22, 2009–January 3, 2010
Surface Tension: Contemporary Photographs from the Collection
September 15, 2009–May 16, 2010


Upcoming Exhibitions
Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage
February 2, 2010–May 9, 2010


Past Exhibitions
Napoleon III and Paris
June 9, 2009–September 7, 2009
The Pictures Generation, 1974–1984
April 21, 2009–August 2, 2009
Walker Evans and the Picture Postcard
February 3, 2009–May 25, 2009
Reality Check: Truth and Illusion in Contemporary Photography
November 4, 2008–March 22, 2009
New York, N. Why?: Photographs by Rudy Burckhardt, 1937–1940
September 23, 2008–January 4, 2009
Photography on Photography: Reflections on the Medium since 1960
Through October 19, 2008
Framing a Century: Master Photographers, 1840–1940
Through September 1, 2008
Lee Friedlander: A Ramble in Olmsted Parks
January 22, 2008–May 11, 2008
Depth of Field: Modern Photography at the Metropolitan
September 25, 2007–March 23, 2008
Impressed by Light: British Photographs from Paper Negatives, 1840–1860
September 25, 2007–December 31, 2007
Hidden in Plain Sight: Contemporary Photographs from the Collection
May 15, 2007–September 3, 2007
Closed Circuit: Video and New Media at the Metropolitan
February 23, 2007–April 29, 2007
New Orleans after the Flood: Photographs by Robert Polidori
September 19, 2006–December 10, 2006
On Photography: A Tribute to Susan Sontag
June 6, 2006–September 4, 2006
The Perfect Medium: Photography and the Occult
September 27, 2005–December 31, 2005
Master Photographs from the Gilman Collection: A Landmark Acquisition
June 28, 2005–September 6, 2005
All the Mighty World: The Photographs of Roger Fenton, 1852–1860
May 24, 2005–August 21, 2005
Diane Arbus Revelations
March 8, 2005–May 30, 2005
Few Are Chosen: Street Photography and the Book, 1936–1966
November 5, 2004–March 6, 2005
August Sander: People of the Twentieth Century
A Photographic Portrait of Germany

May 25, 2004–September 19, 2004
The Dawn of Photography: French Daguerreotypes, 1839–1855
September 23, 2003–January 4, 2004
The Photography of Charles Sheeler
June 3, 2003–August 17, 2003
Charles Sheeler's Contemporaries
June 3, 2003–August 17, 2003
Thomas Struth
February 4, 2003–May 18, 2003
Portraits: A Century of Photographs
September 10, 2002–January 12, 2003
Richard Avedon: Portraits
September 26, 2002–January 5, 2003
Thomas Eakins
June 18, 2002–September 15, 2002
New York, New York: Photographs from the Collection
May 7, 2002–September 15, 2002
As It Happened: Photographs from the Gilman Paper Company Collection
May 7, 2002–August 25, 2002
Surrealism: Desire Unbound
February 6, 2002–May 12, 2002
Benjamin Brecknell Turner: Rural England through a Victorian Lens
January 15, 2002–April 21, 2002
Earthly Bodies: Irving Penn's Nudes, 1949–50
January 15, 2002–April 21, 2002
The Pharaoh's Photographer: Harry Burton, Tutankhamun, and the Metropolitan's Egyptian Expedition
September 11, 2001–March 3, 2002
Along the Nile: Early Photographs of Egypt
September 11, 2001–December 30, 2001
Photographs: A Decade of Collecting
June 5, 2001–September 2, 2001
Dancing on the Roof: Photography and the Bauhaus (1923–1929)
June 5, 2001–August 26, 2001
Photography: Processes, Preservation, and Conservation
January 30, 2001–May 20, 2001
Art and the Empire City: New York, 1825–1861
September 19, 2000–January 7, 2001
"La Divine Comtesse": Photographs of the Countess de Castiglione
September 19, 2000–December 31, 2000
Other Pictures: Vernacular Photographs from the Thomas Walther Collection
June 6, 2000–August 27, 2000
Walker Evans
February 1, 2000–May 14, 2000
Sean Scully on Paper
January 11, 2000–March 12, 2000
Carleton Watkins: The Art of Perception
October 5, 1999–January 9, 2000
Daido Moriyama: Hunter
September 22, 1999–January 2, 2000

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