Reconsidering the Photographic Masterpiece

On view in the Main Gallery, February 10 to July 28, 2012

The sweeping exhibition, RECONSIDERING THE PHOTOGRAPHIC MASTERPIECE, curated by Michele Penhall, will present approximately 100 works chosen from the museum’s permanent collection—some on view for the first time—that encompasses the history of photography from 1843 to 2011. The exhibition centers upon the idea of an artist's signature or iconic image from an evolving and changed, historical perspective. Works from the 19th century to the present day by William Henry Fox Talbot, Julia Margaret Cameron, Edward Weston, August Sander, Diane Arbus, Garry Winogrand, Hilla and Bernd Becher, and Flor Garduño with recent gifts and acquisitions of works by Alfred Stieglitz, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Jayne Hinds Bidaut, John Coplans, Tamas Dezso, Danny Lyon, Alec Soth, and Martin Parr will be included in this important exhibition.


Reviews of the Exhibition in Albuquerque Journal, Sunday, March 25, 2012, and in the April 2012 issue of THE Magazine

Current Exhibitions

Spring 2012:

Reconsidering the
Photographic Masterpiece

Hiroshi Sugimoto

An Inquisitive Eye,
Seeing Into Prints