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Home>Exhibitions>Past>2016>Photography Reinvented: The Collection of Robert E. Meyerhoff and Rheda Becker

# Photography Reinvented: The Collection of Robert E. Meyerhoff and Rheda Becker

September 30, 2016 – March 5, 2017East Building, Pod 2 Upper Level, West Bridge

Photography Reinvented: The Collection of Robert E. Meyerhoff and Rheda Becker
Marina Abramovic, Serbian, born 1946*, The Kitchen**I*, from the series *The Kitchen, Homage to Saint Therese*, 2009, inkjet print (color fine-art pigment print). Unless otherwise noted, all photographs are promised gifts from the Collection of Robert E. Meyerhoff and Rheda Becker

Photography Reinvented: The Collection of Robert E. Meyerhoff and Rheda Becker
Bernd Becher, German, 1931– 2007 and Hilla Becher, German, 1934 – 2015, *Water Towers*, 1972 – 2009, nine gelatin silver prints

Photography Reinvented: The Collection of Robert E. Meyerhoff and Rheda Becker
Thomas Demand, German, born 1964, *Clearing,* 2003, chromogenic print

Photography Reinvented: The Collection of Robert E. Meyerhoff and Rheda Becker
Candida Höfer, German, born 1944*, Musée du Louvre Paris VIII*, 2005, chromogenic print

Photography Reinvented: The Collection of Robert E. Meyerhoff and Rheda Becker
Anselm Kiefer, German, born 1945, *Vanitas*, 2007, mixed media with oil paint, emulsion, shellac, plant material, and soil on gelatin silver print

Photography Reinvented: The Collection of Robert E. Meyerhoff and Rheda Becker
Vera Lutter, German, born 1960, *World Trade Center 7, III: October 30, 2007*, 2007, gelatin silver print

Photography Reinvented: The Collection of Robert E. Meyerhoff and Rheda Becker
Vik Muniz, American, born Brazil, 1961, *Marilyn Monroe, Actress, NY City, May 6, 1957, After Avedon (Gordian Puzzle)*, 2007, chromogenic print

Photography Reinvented: The Collection of Robert E. Meyerhoff and Rheda Becker
Hiroshi Sugimoto, Japanese, born 1948, *Caribbean Sea, Jamaica,* 1980, gelatin silver print

Photography Reinvented: The Collection of Robert E. Meyerhoff and Rheda Becker
Jeff Wall, Canadian, born 1946, *Hotels, Carrall St., Vancouver, summer 2005*, 2005, transparency in light box. Promised Gift from the Collection of Robert E. Meyerhoff and Rheda Becker

Photography Reinvented: The Collection of Robert E. Meyerhoff and Rheda Becker
Cindy Sherman, American, born 1954, *Untitled Film Still #4*, 1977, gelatin silver print

Photography Reinvented: The Collection of Robert E. Meyerhoff and Rheda Becker
Thomas Struth, German, born 1954, *Museo del Prado 7, Madrid 2005*, 2005, chromogenic print

Photography Reinvented: The Collection of Robert E. Meyerhoff and Rheda Becker
Thomas Struth, German, born 1954, *Alte Pinakothek, Self-Portrait, Munich 2000*, 2000, chromogenic print

Photography Reinvented: The Collection of Robert E. Meyerhoff and Rheda Becker
Andreas Gursky, German, born 1955, *Rimini*, 2003, silver dye bleach print

**This exhibition is no longer on view at the National Gallery.**

**Overview:** The collection of Robert E. Meyerhoff and Rheda Becker brings together works of critically important artists who have changed the course of photography through their experimentation and conceptual scope. In celebration of a pledged gift of 33 photographs from this important collection and the reopening of the East Building galleries, seminal works by Thomas Demand, Thomas Struth, Hiroshi Sugimoto, and Jeff Wall, among others, will be on view. Especially rich in holdings of work by photographers of the famed Düsseldorf School, among them Struth, Candida Höfer, Andreas Gursky, and Thomas Ruff, the collection also includes examples by photographers exploring the nature of the medium itself, such as Demand, Cindy Sherman, and Vik Muniz.

**Organization:** Organized by National Gallery of Art, Washington.

**Attendance:**  150,000

**Catalog:**Photography Reinvented: The Collection of Robert E. Meyerhoff and Rheda Becker. By Sarah Greenough, et al. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art and Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016.

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                    - Demand, Thomas
                    - German , 1964 - 
                    - Gursky, Andreas
                    - German , 1955 - 
                    - Sherman, Cindy
                    - American , 1954 - 
                    - Struth, Thomas
                    - German , 1954 - 
                    - Sugimoto, Hiroshi
                    - Japanese , 1948 - 
                    - Muniz, Vik
                    - American , 1961 - 

                  - Diamonstein-Spielvogel Lecture Series: Thomas Struth
                  -                                     Video, Released:                                    November 1, 2016, (46:54 minutes)                                
                  - Diamonstein-Spielvogel Lecture Series: Thomas Struth
                  -                                     Audio, Released:                                    October 18, 2016, (46:54 minutes)                                
                  - Press Event: Photography Reinvented: The Collection of Robert E. Meyerhoff and Rheda Becker
                  -                                     Audio, Released:                                    September 27, 2016, (13:16 minutes)                                

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