Photography - Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - Permanent Collections

Beyond the Dark Veil: Post Mortem and Mourning Photography from The Thanatos Archive is a compilation of more than 120 extraordinary and haunting photographs and related ephemera documenting the practice of death and mourning photography in the Victorian Era and early twentieth century. Supplemented...

A rich examination of the role of portrait photography in the construction of Africa as a political ideaAt a moment of profound change marked by decolonization and the civil rights period of the mid-20th century, photographers across Africa and the African diaspora used the...

Meditating on the legacies of racial injustice in America: a photographic reimagining of Emmett Till's life had it not been cut shortPublished with Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago. This book honors the life, death and legacy of Emmett Till through a...

Copiously illustrated, Queer Lens explores the transformative role of photography in LGBTQ+ communities from the nineteenth century to the present day. "An outstanding addition to the growing body of scholarship around queer imagery." --Jim Van Buskirk, The Bay Area Reporter "A tour de force....

This lavishly illustrated book offers a comprehensive overview of the work of the great Malian photographer Seydou Keïta, one of the most important portraitists of the 20th centuryPublished with Brooklyn Museum. Seydou Keïta's photographs capture Malian culture during an era of radical transformation. As...

The ultimate and most comprehensive collection of Slim Aarons's photography ever released, featuring more than 100 previously unpublished images Slim Aarons: The Essential Collection gathers the very best of Slim's spectacular collections, including hundreds of iconic black-and-white and color photos, along with more than...

Yiddish: A Global Culture at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, MA is the first ever museum to showcase the extraordinary vibrancy and breadth of modern Yiddish culture--its literature, theater, art, music, journalism, politics--from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. This landmark exhibition...