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Copy of Botanical Engraving of "Celtis" https://www.artic.edu/artworks/127282/

Edward E. Ayer Endowment in memory of Charles L. Hutchinson

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King of Naples https://www.artic.edu/artworks/228208/

Gift of Helen Harvey Mills

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Mrs. Herbert Duckworth with Gerald Duckworth https://www.artic.edu/artworks/150120/

The Mary and Leigh Block Endowment Fund

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Regina Schrecker https://www.artic.edu/artworks/194255/

Gift of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

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Untitled (31) https://www.artic.edu/artworks/225570/

Gift of Mrs. Charles S. Potter and Mrs. James F. Hunnewell

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Pohono, or the Bridal Veil, 900 feet, Yosemite Valley, Mariposa County, Cal. https://www.artic.edu/artworks/54725/

Kunstadter Family Foundation and Photography Purchase Account

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Grand Inter-State Exposition, Chicago https://www.artic.edu/artworks/189271/

Gift of Helen Harvey Mills

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Paul Cadmus https://www.artic.edu/artworks/123569/

Photography Expense Fund

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Tretyakov Passage https://www.artic.edu/artworks/234710/

Gift of Robert Jesmer

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Untitled (Portrait of a Man) https://www.artic.edu/artworks/250064/

The W. Bruce and Delaney H. Lundberg Collection, restricted gift of The Phillip Leonian and Edith Rosenbaum Leonian Charitable Trust

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Lower Genessee Falls, Rochester, NY, ed. 22/30 https://www.artic.edu/artworks/159739/

Gift of Ralph and Nancy Segall

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St. Martin's Church https://www.artic.edu/artworks/184624/

Gift of Ralph and Nancy Segall

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Deux arlesiennes dans le cloitre de Saint-Trophime d'Arles https://www.artic.edu/artworks/100091/

Restricted gift of Helen Harvey Mills in memory of her mother Kathleen W. Harvey

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Untitled [from Circulation, October 12 #108] https://www.artic.edu/artworks/242987/

Gift of Gen Nakahira

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Ghana https://www.artic.edu/artworks/22749/

Gift of Marc Riboud

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The Punch Bowl, Queen's Cañon, Glen Eyrie https://www.artic.edu/artworks/103146/

D. Wendell Fentress Endowment Fund

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Long Island https://www.artic.edu/artworks/65535/

Gift of Hugh Edwards

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Untitled [from Circulation, October 14, #1] https://www.artic.edu/artworks/245230/

Gift of Gen Nakahira

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Firenze, via Nazionale https://www.artic.edu/artworks/23019/

Gift of Frances Hamill

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Bayonne https://www.artic.edu/artworks/119149/

Although he began his career as a documentarian, Aaron Siskind quickly became known for photographs that concerned themselves with exploring internal formal relationships rather than depicting recognizable objects. Active in the artistic milieu of postwar New York, Siskind made photographs in dialogue with the work of the Abstract Expressionist painters, with whom he was socially and professionally close. He sought to find a new language for photographic depiction that could transcend what was in front of the camera. “First, and emphatically,” he wrote in 1950, “I accept the flat plane of the picture surface as the primary frame of reference of the picture.” Siskind’s radically abstract photographs of walls covered with graffiti, chalk, or peeling paint and paper would be recognized as a pioneering development in 20th-century photography.

Gift of Emanuel and Edithann M. Gerard

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Illustration of the Principles of The Uplift Bra "-in compliance with and/or defiance of women's lib and the exploitation of the female form as object," Fullerton, CA https://www.artic.edu/artworks/185074/

Gift of Anstiss and Ronald Krueck in memory of A. James Speyer

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Protest Surrounding the Construction of Narita Airport https://www.artic.edu/artworks/208976/

Protests saturated postwar Japan’s political landscape. In 1960 public demonstrations were sparked by the ratification of a lopsided security treaty between Japan and the United States, which was escalating involvement in Vietnam. Large-scale protests were also mounted against the construction of Narita Airport, led by leftists who opposed the airport out of antimilitarist, anti-American sentiments, as well as farmers whose land would be seized in order to make room for the massive facility. While the airport was completed in 1972, it only opened in 1978 after the government finally quelled the dogged resisters. This picture is one of a group of 500 made anonymously by one or more protesters against the airport, and purchased by the Art Institute in 2010.

Photography Gala Fund

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Protest Surrounding the Construction of Narita Airport https://www.artic.edu/artworks/208917/

Protests saturated postwar Japan’s political landscape. In 1960 public demonstrations were sparked by the ratification of a lopsided security treaty between Japan and the United States, which was escalating involvement in Vietnam. Large-scale protests were also mounted against the construction of Narita Airport, led by leftists who opposed the airport out of antimilitarist, anti-American sentiments, as well as farmers whose land would be seized in order to make room for the massive facility. While the airport was completed in 1972, it only opened in 1978 after the government finally quelled the dogged resisters. This picture is one of a group of 500 made anonymously by one or more protesters against the airport, and purchased by the Art Institute in 2010.

Photography Gala Fund

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Unidentified Woman (Short Curly Hair) https://www.artic.edu/artworks/194256/

Gift of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

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Protest Surrounding the Construction of Narita Airport https://www.artic.edu/artworks/208778/

Protests saturated postwar Japan’s political landscape. In 1960 public demonstrations were sparked by the ratification of a lopsided security treaty between Japan and the United States, which was escalating involvement in Vietnam. Large-scale protests were also mounted against the construction of Narita Airport, led by leftists who opposed the airport out of antimilitarist, anti-American sentiments, as well as farmers whose land would be seized in order to make room for the massive facility. While the airport was completed in 1972, it only opened in 1978 after the government finally quelled the dogged resisters. This picture is one of a group of 500 made anonymously by one or more protesters against the airport, and purchased by the Art Institute in 2010.

Photography Gala Fund