Charts


Introduction








Group Exhibit Themes






Theme 1:  Exhibits based on Private Collectors' collections (currently 14 designated "C1, C2, C3" below) - purchased by or donated to museums - 1997-2025  Green dots in chart above

C1     downloads pdf superset of photographers listed alphabetically   C2   photographers ranked by most frequently exhibited   C3   photographers ranked by least frequently exhibited




Theme 2:   The 12 Exhibits 1893-1911 - organized by Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Amateur Photographie, Hamburg  Red dots in chart above






Theme 3:   Women Photographers  Orange dots in chart above






Theme 4:   "Salon" exhibits  Light blue dots in chart above






 



2020s

Staged: Studio Photographs from the Collection   Philadelphia Museum of Art - January - June 29, 2025


Diaries of Home   Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth - November 17, 2024 - February 2, 2025


Frames of Mind: The Ramer Photography Collection   Crocker Art Museum - November 10, 2024 - May 4, 2025    (C1, C2, C3)


Life with Photographs: 75 Years of the Eastman Museum   George Eastman Museum - October 5, 2024 - August 31, 2025


Open Your Eyes: The Photographic Collections of Les Abattoirs and the Galerie Le Château d’Eau, Toulouse   October 11, 2024 - May 18, 2025


The ‘70s Lens: Reimagining Documentary Photography  National Gallery of Art - October 6, 2024 - April 6, 2025


New Vision, New Objectivity and Bauhaus: New Photography Acquisitions from the Siegert Collection  Staatsgalerie Stuttgart - October 12, 2024 – February 23, 2025    (C1, C2, C3)


3 Exhibits from the Elton John, David Furnish Collection  High Museum (2000); Tate (2016); Victoria & Albert (2024)    (C1, C2, C3)


American, born Hungary: Kertész, Capa, and the Hungarian American Photographic Legacy  Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest - April 6 - August 25, 2024


The Awe of the Arctic: A Visual History  New York Public Library - March 15 – July 13, 2024


Size Matters - Größe in der Fotografie  Kunst Palast - Düsseldorf - February 1 - May 20, 2024


This is Me, This is You: The Eva Felten Photography Collection  Museum Brandhorst - Munich - October 19, 2023 - April 7, 2024    (C1, C2, C3)


Corps à corps - Histoire(s) de la photographie  Centre Pompidou, Paris - September 6, 2023 - March 25, 2024


Sea Change: Photographs from the Collection  San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - September 2, 2023 - March 17, 2024


You Belong Here: Place, People, and Purpose in Latinx Photography  Princeton University Art Museum - February 11 - May 7, 2023


New Woman Behind the Camera  Metropolitan Museum of Art - July 2 - October 3, 2021; National Gallery of Art - October 31, 2021 – January 30, 2022


An Alternative History of Photography (Photographs from the Solander Collection)  Curatorial Assistance; Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto - August 14, 2021 - January 16, 2022; Photographers Gallery, London - October 7, 2022 - February 19, 2023    (C1, C2, C3)


Our Selves: Photographs by Women Artists from Helen Kornblum  Museum of Modern Art, NY - April 16 - October 2, 2022



2010s

NeoRealismo: The New Image in Italy, 1932–1960  Grey Art Gallery - September 6 - December 8, 2018


Icons of Style: A Century of Fashion Photography, 1911-2011  J. Paul Getty Museum - June 26 - October 21, 2018


Another Way of Telling: Women Photographers from the Collection  Philadelphia Museum of Art - April 8 - July 16, 2017


The Shape of Things: Photographs from Robert B. Menschel  Museum of Modern Art, New York - October 29, 2016 - May 7, 2017    (C1, C2, C3)


Borrowed Light: Selections from the Jack Shear Collection  Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery - Saratoga Springs, NY - February 6 - August 14, 2016    (C1, C2, C3)


See the Light—Photography, Perception, Cognition: The Marjorie and Leonard Vernon Collection  Los Angeles County Museum of Art - October 27, 2013 - March 23, 2014    (C1, C2, C3)


Vienna's Shooting Girls -- Jüdisches Fotografinnen aus Wien  Júdisches Museum Wien - October 23, 2012 - March 3, 2013


A Rare Gift: The Noel and Harriette Levine Collection of Photographs  Israel Museum, Jerusalem - July 26 - November 13, 2010    (C1, C2, C3)



2000s

Beyond Time: Photographs from the Gary B. Sokol Collection  Israel Museum, Jerusalem - June 1 - October 14, 2006    (C1, C2, C3)


PORTRAITS OF AN AGE: PHOTOGRAPHY IN GERMANY AND AUSTRIA, 1900-1938  Neue Gallerie, New York - March 11 - June 6, 2005; Albertina Museum, Vienna - July 6 - October 16, 2005


Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self  International Center of Photography - December 12, 2003 - February 29, 2004; Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego - October 1 - December 31, 2005


Visions from America: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1940-2001  Whitney Museum of American Art, New York - June 27 - September 22, 2002


The Tumultuous Fifties: A View from the New York Times  Buffalo AKG Art Museum - January 25 - April 7, 2002; 9 other American venues thru 2004



1990s

Magnum Cinema: 50 Years of Photography  George Eastman House - October 11, 1997 - January 4, 1998


After the Photo-Secession: American Pictorial Photography 1910-1955  Minneapolis Institute of Arts - February 8 - May 4, 1997


Eye of the Beholder: Photographs from the Avon Collection  ICP, Midtown, New York - September 12 - November 13, 1997    (C1, C2, C3)


The Poetics of Vision: Photographs from the Collection of Harry M. Drake   Minneapolis Institute of Arts - September 20, 1997 - January 4, 1998    (C1, C2, C3)


Otto Steinert und Schüler: Fotografie und Ausbildung 1948-1978  Museum Folkwang - November 25, 1990 - January 13, 1991



1980s

Die Sammlung Ernst Juhl  Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe - June 23 - August 27, 1989


Philadelphia Naturalistic Photography, 1865-1906  Yale University Art Gallery - February 10 - April 7, 1982


Avant-Garde Photography in Germany 1919-1939  San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - December 19, 1980 - February 8, 1981 (followed by 6 other American venues)



1970s

Niepce to Atget: The First Century of Photography from the Collection of André Jammes  Art Institute of Chicago - November 16, 1977 - January 15, 1978


Photographers from the Julien Levy Collection: Starting with Atget  Art Institute of Chicago - December 11, 1976 - February 20, 1977


Octave of Prayer  Hayden Gallery, MIT - October 27 - November 26, 1972


Be-ing Without Clothes  Hayden Gallery, MIT - November 3-29, 1970



1960s

Foto Expo: Dokumente aus zwanzig Jahren Zeitgeschehen  Münchner Stadtmuseum - August 21 - September 15, 1968


Photography in the Twentieth Century  National Gallery of Canada - February 16 - April 2, 1967



1950s

Photography In The Fine Arts - An Exhibition of Great Contemporary Photographs  Metropolitan Museum of Art - May 8 - September 7, 1959


Family of Man  Museum of Modern Art - January 24 - May 8, 1955


Abstraction in Photography  Museum of Modern Art - May 2 - July 4, 1951



1940s

100 Years of Portrait Photography  Museum of Modern Art - November 4 - December 7, 1943


Seventh Rochester International Salon of Photography  Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester International Salon - March 1942


Image of Freedom  Museum of Modern Art - October 29, 1941 - February 1, 1942 (followed by 3 American Venues)


Salon Photography, 1st Annual  Brooklyn Museum - September 19 - October 19, 1941



1930s

Sixth Annual and Third International Photographic Salon  Marshall Field and Company, Chicago - 1939


Den Internationale Foto Udstilling 1939  Kunstindustrimuseet, Copenhagen - April 26 - May 5, 1939


Nemzetkozi Fenykepkiallitas Budapesten: Daguerre-Centenarium 1837-1937  October 23 - November 7, 1937


XXXI Salon International D'Art Photographique 1936  Société française de photographie - August 3 - October 18, 1936


Fifteenth Annual International Salon of Photography  Camera Pictorialists of Los Angeles, Los Angeles Museum, Exposition Park - January 1 - ?, 1932



1920s

Third International Exhibition of Pictorial Photography   Seattle Camera Club - May 5 - 20, 1927


Internationaal Salon van Fotografische Kunst   Koninklijke Fotografische Kring, Antwerp - September 25 - October 10, 1926


Sixty-Fifth Annual Exhibition of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain   Society Galleries, 35 Russell Square - September 20 - October 30th, 1920



1910s

An Exhibition of Pictorial Photography by American Artists (Eastern edition)  Pictorial Photographers of America (venues Newark, Worcester, Grand Rapids, New Orleans) - 1917-1918

Internationale Photographische Ausstellung für Bildnis und Figurenbild, Hamburg (Zwölfte Ausstellung )  Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Amateur Photographie - October 1-15, 1911

International Exhibition of Pictorial Photography  Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo - November 3 - December 1, 1910


1900s

Ausstellung Kunstphotographien (Elfte)  Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Amateur Photographie - April 12-30, 1906

Zehnte internationale Jahres-Ausstellung von Kunstphotographien, 1903  Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Amateur Photographie - second half 1903

IX Internationale Ausstellung von Kunst-Photographien  Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Amateur Photographie - 1902

septième salon international de photographie du Photo-Club de Paris  Photo Club de Paris - May 1 - June 1, 1902

Congrès International de Photographie - American Women Photographers".  Photo Club de Paris - January, 1900

VIII Jahresusstellung von Kunst-Photographien von Mitgliedern der Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Amateur-Photographie  Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Amateur Photographie - December 1-30, 1900


1890s

VII. International Ausstellung von Kunst-Photographien  Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Amateur Photographie - August 25-30, 1899

6te International Ausstellung von Kunst-Photographien  Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Amateur Photographie - 1898

Troisieme Exposition D'Art Photographique, Cercle artistique & littéraire, a Bruxelles  Association Belge de Photographie et de Cinématographie - April 30 - May 31, 1898

Fuenfte Jahresausstellung Der Gesellschaft Zur Foerderung Der Amateur-Photographie  Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Amateur Photographie - September - October 1897

Vierte Jahresausstellung der Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Amateur Photographie  Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Amateur Photographie - November 1 - December 6, 1896

Jahresausstellung der Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Amateur Photographie (3rd)  Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Amateur Photographie - 1895

Jahresausstellung der Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Amateur Photographie (2nd)  Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Amateur Photographie - 1894

International Ausstellung von Amateur-Photographien  Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Amateur Photographie - October 1 - November 20, 1893

International Ausstellung von Kunst-Photographie, Hamburger Kunsthall - 1893-1903 (Exhibits 1-10)


International Ausstellung von Kunst-Photographie, Hamburger Kunsthall - 1893-1906 (Exhibits 1-11)


International Ausstellung von Kunst-Photographie, Hamburger Kunsthall - 1893-1911 (all 12 exhibits) 



1880s

2e Exposition Internationale de Photographie  Association Belge de Photographie - August 15 - October 1, 1883


Photographischen Jubiläums Ausstellung  Verein zur Förderung der Photographie - 1889



1860s

Photographic Society - Exhibition of Photographs and Daguerreotype - Seventh Year - Fourteenth Year  Gallery of the Society of British Artists, Annually 1860-1969 (none 1862, 1868)



1850s

Photographic Society - Exhibition of Photographs and Daguerreotype - First Year - Sixth Year  Gallery of the Society of British Artists, Annually 1854-1959




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