Roots of Photography

Summary information

Date

Tue Apr 26 1949 until Mon Jul 25 1949

Location

MoMA ^{type:exhibition building spaces}
11 West 53rd St. ^{type:thoroughfare names}

Carried out by

The Museum of Modern Art

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Concurrent exhibitions

Exhibitions that overlap with this exhibition, in this dataset. Double-click an item in the timeline to view the corresponding exhibition page.

1949

January 1949

February 1949

March 1949

April 1949

May 1949

June 1949

July 1949

August 1949

September 1949

October 1949

Roots of Photography

Paintings, Sculpture, and Graphic Arts from the Museum Collection

The Exact Instant

Georges Braque

The House in the Museum Garden

Lobmeyr Glass

Recent Acquisitions

Master Prints from the Museum Collection

Twentieth Century Italian Art

Art Nouveau from the Museum Collection

Oskar Kokoschka

Concurrent exhibitions grouped by organisation

#	Start	End	Title
1	1946-07	1954-09	Paintings, Sculpture, and Graphic Arts from the Museum Collection
2	1949-02	1949-05	The Exact Instant
3	1949-03	1949-06	Georges Braque
4	1949-04	1949-10	The House in the Museum Garden
5	1949-04	1949-07	Lobmeyr Glass
6	1949-05	1949-07	Recent Acquisitions
7	1949-05	1949-07	Master Prints from the Museum Collection
8	1949-06	1949-09	Twentieth Century Italian Art
9	1949-07	1949-09	Art Nouveau from the Museum Collection
10	1949-07	1949-10	Oskar Kokoschka

Artists

There were 6 persons who influenced this exhibition.

Persons are ordered alphabetically by surname. Select a letter in the concertina to continue. Click on the person's name to view further information.

Robert Adamson

Biographical statement British, 1821–1848

Born 1821 ^{(click to view other people born in this year)}

Died 1848

Nationality British

Gender Male

External information resources for Robert Adamson

Exhibitions

In this dataset, Robert Adamson was involved in 15 exhibitions across 7 decades.

Decade(s) with the most number of exhibitions was the 1940s with 5 exhibitions.
Decade with the least number of exhibitions was the 1930s,1980s,1990s with 1 exhibitions.

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1937-03	1937-04	MoMA	Photography 1839–1937

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1941-09	1941-10	MoMA	Photographs by David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson
2	1944-05	1944-09	MoMA	Photography
3	1945-06	1946-06	MoMA	The Museum Collection of Photographs
4	1948-07	1948-09	MoMA	50 Photographs by 50 Photographers
5	1949-04	1949-07	MoMA	Roots of Photography

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1958-11	1959-01	MoMA	Photographs from the Museum Collection
2	1959-11	1959-11	MoMA	30th Anniversary Special Installation - Towards the "New" Museum

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1963-02		MoMA	Towards the "New" Museum of Modern Art: A Bid for Space IV
2	1964-05		MoMA	Edward Steichen Photography Center
3	1968-03	1968-05	MoMA	Photography as Printmaking

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1976-03	1976-06	MoMA	Photography for Collectors
2	1979-05	1979-07	MoMA	Nineteenth-Century Photographs from the Arnold H. Crane Collection

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1985-11	1986-01	MoMA	Self Portrait: The Photographer's Persona, 1840–1985

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1995-01	1995-04	MoMA	Recent Acquisitions: Photography

Henry Herschel Hay Cameron Julia Margaret Cameron

Julia Margaret Cameron

Biographical statement British, 1815–1879

Born 1815 ^{(click to view other people born in this year)}

Died 1879

Nationality British

Gender Female

External information resources for Julia Margaret Cameron

Exhibitions

In this dataset, Julia Margaret Cameron was involved in 33 exhibitions across 9 decades.

Decade(s) with the most number of exhibitions was the 1960s with 8 exhibitions.
Decade with the least number of exhibitions was the 1930s,2010s with 1 exhibitions.

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1937-03	1937-04	MoMA	Photography 1839–1937

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1942-01	1942-02	MoMA	New Acquisitions: Photographs
2	1943-11	1943-12	MoMA	Portraits
3	1944-05	1944-09	MoMA	Photography
4	1947-06	1947-08	MoMA	Alfred Stieglitz Exhibition: His Collection
5	1948-07	1948-09	MoMA	50 Photographs by 50 Photographers
6	1949-04	1949-07	MoMA	Roots of Photography

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1952-08	1952-08	MoMA	Then and Now
2	1958-11	1959-01	MoMA	Photographs from the Museum Collection
3	1959-11	1959-11	MoMA	30th Anniversary Special Installation - Towards the "New" Museum

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1962-04	1962-05	MoMA	50 Photographs by 50 Photographers
2	1963-02		MoMA	Towards the "New" Museum of Modern Art: A Bid for Space IV
3	1964-05	1964-08	MoMA	The Photographer's Eye
4	1964-05		MoMA	Edward Steichen Photography Center
5	1965-08	1965-09	MoMA	Glamour Portraits
6	1967-10		MoMA	Steichen Gallery Reinstallation
7	1968-03	1968-05	MoMA	Photography as Printmaking
8	1969-07	1969-09	MoMA	Portrait Photographs

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1976-03	1976-06	MoMA	Photography for Collectors
2	1979-12		MoMA	Edward Steichen Photography Center Reinstallation

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1980-10		MoMA	Reinstallation of the Collection
2	1984-11	1985-03	MoMA	From the Gilman Collection: Photographs Preserved in Ink
3	1985-12	1986-03	MoMA	Variants

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1990-02	1990-05	MoMA	Photography Until Now
2	1991-01	1991-03	MoMA	Artist's Choice: Chuck Close, Head-On/The Modern Portrait
3	1993-02	1993-04	MoMA	Recent Acquisitions and a New Installation of Photography from the Collection
4	1999-01	1999-05	MoMA	Julia Margaret Cameron's Women
5	1999-10	2000-02	MoMA	Composing with the Figure
6	1999-10	2000-02	MoMA	Posed to unposed: Encounters with the Camera

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	2000-10	2001-03	MoMA	Sets and Situations
2	2006-03	2006-11	MoMA	Photography Collection: Rotation 3
3	2006-12	2007-07	MoMA	Photography Collection: Rotation 4

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	2010-05	2011-04	MoMA	Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography (Part 2)

Henry Herschel Hay Cameron

Biographical statement

Born ^{(click to view other people born in this year)}

Died

Nationality

Gender

External information resources for Henry Herschel Hay Cameron

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Exhibitions

In this dataset, Henry Herschel Hay Cameron was involved in 1 exhibitions across 1 decades.

Decade(s) with the most number of exhibitions was the 1940s with 1 exhibitions.
Decade with the least number of exhibitions was the 1940s with 1 exhibitions.

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1949-04	1949-07	MoMA	Roots of Photography

David Octavius Hill

Biographical statement British, 1802–1870

Born 1802 ^{(click to view other people born in this year)}

Died 1870

Nationality British

Gender Male

External information resources for David Octavius Hill

Exhibitions

In this dataset, David Octavius Hill was involved in 30 exhibitions across 9 decades.

Decade(s) with the most number of exhibitions was the 1940s with 8 exhibitions.
Decade with the least number of exhibitions was the 1930s,2010s with 1 exhibitions.

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1937-03	1937-04	MoMA	Photography 1839–1937

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1940-12	1941-01	MoMA	Sixty Photographs: A Survey of Camera Esthetics
2	1941-09	1941-10	MoMA	Photographs by David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson
3	1943-11	1943-12	MoMA	Portraits
4	1944-05	1944-09	MoMA	Photography
5	1945-06	1946-06	MoMA	The Museum Collection of Photographs
6	1947-06	1947-08	MoMA	Alfred Stieglitz Exhibition: His Collection
7	1948-07	1948-09	MoMA	50 Photographs by 50 Photographers
8	1949-04	1949-07	MoMA	Roots of Photography

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1958-11	1959-01	MoMA	Photographs from the Museum Collection
2	1959-11	1959-11	MoMA	30th Anniversary Special Installation - Towards the "New" Museum

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1963-02		MoMA	Towards the "New" Museum of Modern Art: A Bid for Space IV
2	1964-05		MoMA	Edward Steichen Photography Center
3	1967-10		MoMA	Steichen Gallery Reinstallation
4	1968-03	1968-05	MoMA	Photography as Printmaking
5	1969-07	1969-09	MoMA	Portrait Photographs

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1976-03	1976-06	MoMA	Photography for Collectors
2	1979-05	1979-07	MoMA	Nineteenth-Century Photographs from the Arnold H. Crane Collection
3	1979-12		MoMA	Edward Steichen Photography Center Reinstallation

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1980-10		MoMA	Reinstallation of the Collection
2	1984-11	1985-03	MoMA	From the Gilman Collection: Photographs Preserved in Ink
3	1985-11	1986-01	MoMA	Self Portrait: The Photographer's Persona, 1840–1985

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1990-02	1990-05	MoMA	Photography Until Now
2	1991-01	1991-03	MoMA	Artist's Choice: Chuck Close, Head-On/The Modern Portrait
3	1995-01	1995-04	MoMA	Recent Acquisitions: Photography
4	1999-10	2000-02	MoMA	Composing with the Figure
5	1999-10	2000-02	MoMA	Posed to unposed: Encounters with the Camera

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	2006-12	2007-07	MoMA	Photography Collection: Rotation 4
2	2008-10	2009-07	MoMA	The Printed Picture

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	2011-05	2012-03	MoMA	Photography Collection: Rotation

Charles Somers-Cocks, 3rd Earl Somers

Biographical statement

Born ^{(click to view other people born in this year)}

Died

Nationality

Gender

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Exhibitions

In this dataset, Charles Somers-Cocks, 3rd Earl Somers was involved in 1 exhibitions across 1 decades.

Decade(s) with the most number of exhibitions was the 1940s with 1 exhibitions.
Decade with the least number of exhibitions was the 1940s with 1 exhibitions.

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1949-04	1949-07	MoMA	Roots of Photography

William Henry Fox Talbot

Biographical statement British, 1800–1877

Born 1800 ^{(click to view other people born in this year)}

Died 1877

Nationality British

Gender Male

External information resources for William Henry Fox Talbot

Exhibitions

In this dataset, William Henry Fox Talbot was involved in 21 exhibitions across 9 decades.

Decade(s) with the most number of exhibitions was the 1940s,1950s,1970s,1980s with 3 exhibitions.
Decade with the least number of exhibitions was the 1930s with 1 exhibitions.

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1937-03	1937-04	MoMA	Photography 1839–1937

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1943-08	1943-09	MoMA	Action Photography
2	1944-05	1944-09	MoMA	Photography
3	1949-04	1949-07	MoMA	Roots of Photography

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1952-08	1952-08	MoMA	Then and Now
2	1958-11	1959-01	MoMA	Photographs from the Museum Collection
3	1959-11	1959-11	MoMA	30th Anniversary Special Installation - Towards the "New" Museum

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1963-02		MoMA	Towards the "New" Museum of Modern Art: A Bid for Space IV
2	1964-05		MoMA	Edward Steichen Photography Center

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1976-05	1976-07	MoMA	Photography: Recent Acquisitions, 1974–1976
2	1979-05	1979-07	MoMA	Nineteenth-Century Photographs from the Arnold H. Crane Collection
3	1979-12		MoMA	Edward Steichen Photography Center Reinstallation

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1980-10		MoMA	Reinstallation of the Collection
2	1981-05	1981-07	MoMA	Before Photography: Painting and the Invention of Photography
3	1984-11	1985-03	MoMA	From the Gilman Collection: Photographs Preserved in Ink

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1990-02	1990-05	MoMA	Photography Until Now
2	1999-11	2000-03	MoMA	Modern Starts: Things

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	2006-03	2006-11	MoMA	Photography Collection: Rotation 3
2	2008-10	2009-07	MoMA	The Printed Picture

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	2010-08	2010-11	MoMA	The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today
2	2011-05	2012-03	MoMA	Photography Collection: Rotation

Roots of Photography

Summary information

Date

Location

Carried out by

Concurrent exhibitions

Concurrent exhibitions grouped by organisation

MoMA

Artists

A

Robert Adamson

Exhibitions

1930s (1)

1940s (5)

1950s (2)

1960s (3)

1970s (2)

1980s (1)

1990s (1)

C

Julia Margaret Cameron

Exhibitions

1930s (1)

1940s (6)

1950s (3)

1960s (8)

1970s (2)

1980s (3)

1990s (6)

2000s (3)

2010s (1)

Henry Herschel Hay Cameron

Exhibitions

1940s (1)

H

David Octavius Hill

Exhibitions

1930s (1)

1940s (8)

1950s (2)

1960s (5)

1970s (3)

1980s (3)

1990s (5)

2000s (2)

2010s (1)

S

Charles Somers-Cocks, 3rd Earl Somers

Exhibitions

1940s (1)

T

William Henry Fox Talbot

Exhibitions

1930s (1)

1940s (3)

1950s (3)

1960s (2)

1970s (3)

1980s (3)

1990s (2)

2000s (2)

2010s (2)

Acknowledgements