The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art was one of the first museums in the world to present photography as a fine art. More importantly, however, the museum recognized photography as one of the most vital and expressive art forms of the modern period. Its first director, Grace L. McCann Morley, decided that collecting, exhibiting and interpreting modern photographs would be part of the museum's mandate.
This superb collection of serious and beautiful photographs features works by the brilliant men and women destined to write their own important chapters in the history of the medium. Over 70 photographers are represented including: Dorothea Lange, Diane Arbus, Eugene Atget, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans, Robert Frank, Man Ray, Alfred Stieglitz and Paul Strand. |
