The Department of Photographs

The Agnes Mongan Center houses the collections, study room, and curatorial offices of the Fogg Art Museum's departments of prints, drawings, and photographs.

Photograph Collection Highlights
The photography collection comprises approximately 70,500 images by European and American artists from the invention of the medium to the present.

Ben Shahn, Untitled (Houston Street Playground, New York City), c. 1932 - c. 1936, gelatin silver print, Gift of Bernarda Bryson Shahn

United States and Europe, 19th - 21st centuries
Arbus, Atget, Black, Bourke-White, Brady, Degas, Frank, Goldin, Hine, Johnston, Nixon, O'Sullivan, Sears, Shahn, Siskind, Weems, Weston

19th century studio portraiture

Social documentary photography, 1890 to present

Contemporary photography since the 1960s

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