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# Featured Photographers

The library's image collections include photographs by thousands of photographers, from anonymous cameramen to well-known art photographers. Many pioneers in this field are represented in the collection, such as Robert Jefferson Bingham, Caldesi & Montecchi, Auguste and Louis Bisson, Leopoldo and Giuseppe Alinari, Juan Laurent, and Adolphe Braun. The department also holds examples by artists primarily celebrated as fine art photographers, including Paul Nadar, Alexander Liberman, Tina Modotti, and Brassaï.

Today the department fosters many mutually beneficial relationships with gifted photographers and art historians who initiate and coordinate photographic campaigns. The following is a selection of individuals whose particular interests have strengthened the collection considerably. Gifts are noted with an asterisk.

**Wayne Andrews**American and European modern architecture; of particular interest are works by Rudolph Schindler and Le Corbusier (4,200 photographs). More

**Archivision Digital Research Library****(Scott Gilchrist)**Images of architecture, archaeological sites, gardens, parks and works of art (4,700 slides; 58,000 digital images)****

**James Austin**British and European architecture (8,700 photographs). More****

**Francis Bedford**Architectural views and landscapes of British scenery, 1850s -1880s (4,397 photographs and 2 index volumes). More

**Osvaldo Böhm**Venetian art and architecture (7,300 photographs). More

**William Craft Brumfield***Primarily Russian architecture, as well as sites in other former Soviet republics, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, Lithuania, Poland, and Ireland (approximately 40,000 negatives, 126,158 digital files, and 12,415 photographs to date). See Travels Across Russia features: Avant-Garde, Murom, Torzhok, and Ekaterinburg.  More

**Sonja Bullaty and Angelo Lomeo**European painting from private collections and dealers, including Knoedler and Acquavella Galleries. Their work is also included in the Kress Collection of Historic Images (3,300 photographs)

**Harald Busch**German and Central European art and architecture (6,000 photographs). More

**David Finn**Ancient through contemporary sculpture from Finn’s publications and projects (100,000 negatives and transparencies with corresponding black-and-white photographs). More

**Führerprojekt Photographers (act. 1943-1945)**These color slides are part of the historic 'Führerprojekt', or Farbdiaarchiv zur Wand-und Deckenmalerei (Color Slide Archive of Wall and Ceiling Painting), an official Nazi archive of endangered immovable art in the Third Reich that was produced by order of Adolf Hitler at the height of World War II beginning in 1943. Also included are a selection of color slides from the separate Endangered German and Austrian Stained Glass Survey. More

**Max Hutzel**Italian provincial art and architecture (15,600 photographs). More

**Paul Katz***Portraits of artists and their studios in the Manhattan art world from the 1960s through 1970s (1,880 photographs, negatives and slides)  

**Thomas Keith**Scottish photographer active from 1852 to 1856 (six waxed-paper negatives). More

**Clarence Kennedy**Portfolios of Greek and 15th-century Florentine sculpture (680 photographs and digital files). More

**Ralph Lieberman**Italian, French, and American art and architecture (5,200 photographs, and 700 digital files to date). More

**William MacDonald**Ancient architecture (500 photographs). More

**Lida Moser***Photographs of artists and architecture in New York, with a particular focus on the painter John Koch (744 photographs and negatives, some by purchase). More

**Pietro Poppi (Fotografia dell'Emilia)**Italian art and architecture, predominately from the Emilia-Romagna region and the city of Bologna (c. 200 photographs). More

**Georg Piltz**Architecture in East Germany following the Second World War to the 1970s (8,804 negatives). More 

**Nathan Rabin***Negatives created for various collectors, art dealers, galleries and publications. Modern and contemporary art, the archive also contains images of non-Western objects and some works created prior to 1900 (27,000 negatives and 1,300 photographs to date)

**Foto Reali**Florentine firm that surveyed private collections in the early twentieth century. Some photographs show works in situ. Contini-Bonacossi, Cini, Volterra, and Acton are among the private collections represented. (4,000 photographs, negatives and digital files). For more information, see Digital Projects. More

**Franco Rigamonti**Roman baroque art and architecture (8,200 photographs and negatives). More

**Albert Rudomine**Franco-Russian photographer who worked for the French National Museums (40 photographs). More

**Judith Hancock Sandoval**Mexican colonial and Nicaraguan architecture (16,500 photographs). More

**Shunk-Kender (Harry Shunk and János Kender)***Documenting the work of artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude (2,460 photographs). More

**Roberto Sigismondi (Foto Arte Italiana)**Italian art and architecture especially lesser-known monuments (15,400 photographs and 26,000 digital files to date). More

**William A. Smith***Portraits of artists in their studios and at home by American artist William A. Smith. Subjects include artists from around the world who were active in the mid-20th century (147 photographs and 100 digital files)

**Benjamin Brecknell Turner**Portrait, architectural and landscape photographer, 1850s-1880s. (421 photographs and negatives).  More

Image Collections Catalog

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**Location**National Gallery of Art East Building4th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NWWashington, DC**Mailing Address**Image CollectionsNational Gallery of Art2000 South Club DriveLandover, MD 20785Contact [email protected] or call (202) 842-6026

Image Collections Microforms List

Research in the CollectionPolicies and Procedures (PDF 123KB)Copyright Information

History of the Department of Image CollectionsKress Collection of Historic Images

Travels Across Russia: Oranienbaum

In Situ: Henry Moore, David Finn, and the Experience of Location

Verrocchio, Connoisseurship, and the Photographs of Clarence Kennedy

Before the Fire: Notre-Dame de Paris in Pictures

Travels Across Russia: Avant-Garde Architecture in Moscow

John Brampton Philpot and Photography in 19th-Century Florence

The Richter Archive at 75

Beauty, Fire, & Memory: Lost Art of the Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum

Process and Participation in the Work of Christo and Jeanne-Claude

Samuel Bourne and India

Revelations from Reproductions: Fifteenth-century Italian Paintings in the National Gallery of Art

The Solemnity of Shadows: Juan Laurent’s Vision of Spain

Caught by the Camera's Eye

Patrimony in Peril: Germany’s Survey of Mural Paintings Threatened During World War II

War Damage in Baden and Württemberg: Monuments Men Albums

Rembrandt tentoonstelling

Travels Across Russia:  1889

Travels across Russia: Ekaterinburg

Travels Across Russia:  Murom

Travels Across Russia:  Torzhok

United States Centennial International Exhibition Philadelphia - 1876

Exposition Universelle de 1889: Paris

Exposition Universelle de 1900: *Paris*

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