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Permanent Collection
The Museum of Contemporary Photography’s permanent collection features 9,000 artworks by more than 1,000 artists. View some of the highlights using the list below. To search the entire collection or to browse all artists by name, visit the full online Collection page by clicking here.
Highlights of the Collection
- Berenice Abbott
- Marina Abramovic
- Vito Acconci
- Ansel Adams
- Robert Adams
- Shelby Lee Adams
- Harold Allen
- Diane Arbus
- Eugene Atget
- Shimon Attie
- Aziz + Cucher
- Lewis Baltz
- Tina Barney
- Zeke Berman
- Ruth Bernhard
- Dawoud Bey
- Oliver Boberg
- Andrew Borowiec
- Whitney Bradshaw
- Marilyn Bridges
- Wynn Bullock
- Nancy Burson
- Edward Burtynsky
- Debbie Fleming Caffery
- Harry Callahan
- Sophie Calle
- Julia Margaret Cameron
- Ellen Carey
- Susan Carr
- Manuel Carrillo
- Patty Carroll
- Keith Carter
- Henri Cartier-Bresson
- Catherine Chalmers
- William Christenberry
- Chuck Close
- Lynne Cohen
- Kelli Connell
- Greg Conniff
- Linda Connor
- Antonia Contro
- John Coplans
- Eileen Cowin
- Barbara Crane
- Edward S. Curtis
- Louise Dahl-Wolfe
- Binh Danh
- Bruce Davidson
- Jen Davis
- Paul D’Amato
- Paul de Nooijer
- Roy DeCarava
- Barbara DeGenevieve
- Jack Delano
- Susan Derges
- KayLynn Deveney
- Philip-Lorca diCorcia
- Deanna Dikeman
- Jim Dine
- Robert Doisneau
- Jeanne Dunning
- Harold Edgerton
- Alfred Eisenstadt
- Elliott Erwitt
- Terry Evans
- Walker Evans
- Farm Security Administration Photographers
- Louis Faurer
- Jed Fielding
- Larry Fink
- Judy Fiskin
- Robbert Flick
- Joan Fontcuberta
- Scott Fortino
- Anna Fox
- Robert Frank
- Lee Friedlander
- Dana Fritz
- Flor Garduno
- Beate Gütschow
- Ben Gest
- Ralph Gibson
- Ashley Gilbertson
- Jonathan Gitelson
- Frank Gohlke
- Anthony Goicolea
- Nan Goldin
- John Gossage
- Emmet Gowin
- Lauren Greenfield
- Jan Groover
- Candida Höfer
- Ann Hamilton
- Randy Hayes
- Robert Heinecken
- Craig Hickman
- Todd Hido
- Lewis Hine
- Sarah Hobbs
- George Hurrell
- David Ireland
- Yasuhiro Ishimoto
- Graciela Iturbide
- Alfredo Jaar
- Joseph D. Jachna
- Bill Jacobson
- Eirik Johnson
- Dave Jordano
- Kenneth Josephson
- Barbara Kasten
- Misty Keasler
- Angela Kelly
- Gyorgy Kepes
- André Kertész
- William Klein
- Mark Klett
- Mary Koga
- Josef Koudelka
- Carolyn Krieg
- Barbara Kruger
- Justine Kurland
- Dorothea Lange
- An-My Lê
- Marc Lüders
- Nikki S. Lee
- Nathan Lerner
- Laura Letinsky
- David Levinthal
- O. Winston Link
- Vera Lutter
- Loretta Lux
- Danny Lyon
- Ma Liuming
- Alex S. MacLean
- Curtis Mann
- Sally Mann
- MANUAL (Bloom/Hill)
- Robert Mapplethorpe
- Stephen Marc
- Rogelio Lopez Marin (Gory)
- Mary Ellen Mark
- María Martínez-Cañas
- Ralph Eugene Meatyard
- Susan Meiselas
- Peter Menzel
- Roger Mertin
- Ray K. Metzker
- Pedro Meyer
- Joel Meyerowitz
- Duane Michals
- Byung-hun Min
- Roger Minick
- Richard Misrach
- Abelardo Morell
- Barbara Morgan
- Andreas Muller-Pohle
- Vik Muniz
- Patrick Nagatani
- James Nakagawa
- Judy Natal
- Joyce Neimanas
- Jocelyn Nevel
- New Catalogue (Luke Batten & Jonathan Sadler)
- Beaumont Newhall
- Justin Newhall
- Richard Nickel
- Nic Nicosia
- Nicholas Nixon
- Anne Noggle
- Barbara Norfleet
- Bill Owens
- Esther Parada
- Irving Penn
- Gilles Peress
- Antonio Perez
- John Pfahl
- Melissa Ann Pinney
- Eliot Porter
- Greta Pratt
- Douglas Prince
- Eugene Richards
- Brad Richman
- Linda Robbennolt
- Holly Roberts
- Martha Rosler
- Michal Rovner
- Meridel Rubenstein
- Ed Ruscha
- Mark Ruwedel
- Jason Salavon
- Jan Saudek
- Saul Leiter
- Gary Schneider
- Helen Sear
- Shai Kremer
- Paul Shambroom
- Art Shay
- Fazal Sheikh
- Cindy Sherman
- Stephen Shore
- Anna Shteynshleyger
- Matt Siber
- Arthur Siegel
- Orit Siman-Tov
- Simon Norfolk
- Lorna Simpson
- Art Sinsabaugh
- Aaron Siskind
- Sandy Skoglund
- Victor Skrebneski
- Neal Slavin
- Michael A. Smith
- Rosalind Solomon
- Alec Soth
- John Sparagana
- Buzz Spector
- Doug and Mike Starn
- Edward Steichen
- Joel Sternfeld
- Alfred Stieglitz
- Greg Stimac
- Dennis Stock
- Paul Strand
- Larry Sultan
- Tony Tasset
- David Taylor
- Brad Temkin
- Bob Thall
- Ruth Thorne-Thomsen
- Tom Young
- Stephen Tourlentes
- Christopher Trice
- Sze Tsung Leong
- Jerry Uelsmann
- Brian Ulrich
- Aleksandra Vajd
- Bertien van Manen
- Chris Verene
- Roman Vishniac
- Catherine Wagner
- Alex Webb
- WEEGEE (Arthur Fellig)
- Carrie Mae Weems
- William Wegman
- James Welling
- Alice Wells
- Henry Wessel Jr.
- Margaret Wharton
- Minor White
- Troy Williams
- John Willis
- Garry Winogrand
- Joel-Peter Witkin
- Jeff Wolin
- Shizuka Yokomizo
- Kohei Yoshiyuki