Eugene Smith, Robert Frank, and Diane Arbus. Many of history’s most famous names are represented, including Nadar, Gustave Le Gray, Edward Steichen, Jaromir Funke, Claude Cahun, Alfred Eisenstadt, Dorothea Lange, W. These new pieces span the entire history of the medium, from an 1826 print by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, the inventor of photography, to a 2016 work by legendary musician and artist Patti Smith. The special $10 million gift allowed the curators to build on the collection’s existing strengths-primarily its broad holding of American daguerreotypes and prints-and to enhance its representation of 19th-and 20th-century European and contemporary international works.
He arrived in Kansas City after interning at the George Eastman House in 1979 to begin a six-month stint as cataloguer of the collection he never left. Davis has overseen the Hallmark Photographic Collection for nearly 40 years. The acquisition process and the selection of works in The Big Picture were a collaborative effort by the photography department’s Keith F. Hall and the stewardship of the Foundation through the years has improved and enriched the cultural scene in Kansas City in myriad ways.” and Mary Louise Blackwell CEO & Director of the Nelson-Atkins. “The generous and steadfast support of the Nelson-Atkins by the Hall Family Foundation is the reason our photography collection is world-renowned,” said Julián Zugazagoitia, Menefee D. The gift permitted a more intensive acquisition focus from 2015 to 2017.Ībout 100 of the more than 800 newly acquired photographs will be on view in a Spring 2018 exhibition, The Big Picture: A Transformative Gift from the Hall Family Foundation, to coincide with the Foundation’s 75th anniversary. Recognized around the world, this is one of the finest museum photography collections in the nation. The Hall Family Foundation, in continuing its long support of the photography program at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, made a special $10 million grant to broaden and deepen this collection.
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