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A Short History of Photography

In honor of its Ehrenkranz Director Willis Hartshorn, the International Center of Photography presents an engaging survey of its vast and unique collection of photographs.

90 Items
  • The Necklace
  • Notre-Dame de Paris
  • New York. El and Straw Hat
  • Amos Power Plant, Raymond, West Virginia
  • Unititled
  • Ruth Snyder in "Chair"
  • Self Portrait
  • Untitled
  • Untitled (Gold Jackie)
  • [Buchenwald concentration camp, Germany]
  • To My Little Sister: For Cindy Sherman
  • Emerging Man, Harlem
  • Mrs. William Rhinelander Stewart, New York
  • Untitled
  • The Bowery in Two Inadequate Descriptive Systems
  • View From the Window at Le Gras
  • [Robert Mapplethorpe]
  • [Crowd listening to a speech by Socialist Pietro Nenni, Basilica di Massenzio, Rome]
  • [Crash of the Hindenburg, Lakehurst, New Jersey]
  • Burial at sea from the U.S.S. Bunker Hill
  • Partially Buried Woodshed, Kent State
  • [Opening Day at Ebbets Field, Brooklyn]
  • [Fashion study with Marion Morehouse and unidentified woman]
  • [Robert Capa, Segovia front, Spain]
  • Priceless #1
  • [Abdou Hussain Saad Faleh, nicknamed Gilligan by U.S. soldiers, made to stand on a box for about an hour and told that he would be electrocuted if he fell, Abu Ghraib prison, Iraq]
  • [Amelia Earhart]
  • [Charred boy's jacket found near Hiroshima City Hall]
  • [Unidentified Woman]
  • [Decapitated Man with Head on a Platter]
  • [Unidentified Woman at "Beach"]
  • [Unidentified Man and Woman]
  • [Two unidentified girls, one eating watermelon, the other disrobing]
  • [Two women in lingerie with collaged heads]
  • Holly Solomon
  • Mirror, Mirror
  • [Carousel horse, New York]
  • St. Roch Cemetery, New Orleans, Louisiana
  • Polka Dots
  • Balcon, 15 rue de Petit Pont
  • [Supporters of Juan Perón perched on lamppost with Eva Perón pictures during rally, Buenos Aires]
  • Barrio Chino, Barcelona
  • Untitled
  • [The Cotton Room at Frank Tengle’s Farm, Hale County, Alabama]
  • Teenager with a Cigarette in Prospect Park
  • [Glass and shadows]
  • [Mary Ann Vecchio grieving over body of college student Jeffrey Glenn Miller shot by National Guardsman during an anti-war demonstration at Kent State University, Ohio]
  • Self Portrait
  • McClellanville, South Carolina
  • Oracle
  • Prairieville, Louisiana
  • [Firefighters aiming high-pressure water hoses at civil rights demonstrator, Birmingham, Alabama]
  • Memory Rendering of Kent State Shooting
  • Bottom of William Street one minute before the British First Parachute Regiment opened fire, killing thirteen civilians--an event now known as Bloody Sunday, Derry, Ireland
  • Gypsies
  • Self Portrait, Paris
  • [Inside the Jewish quarter, Bratislava]
  • Untitled
  • The North Gate of Baghdad (After Corot)
  • Clear-cut and burned, East Arch Cape, Oregon
  • Eleanor, Chicago
  • [American soldiers landing on Omaha Beach, D-Day, Normandy, France]
  • Green Warehouse, Newbern, Alabama
  • [Peter Sellers in "A Shot in the Dark"]
  • Vu
  • AIZ
  • 29 Palms: Colonel Greenwood
  • Geoffrey Holder
  • Kölnische Illustrierte Zeitung
  • New York
  • [Gerda Taro on a bed, Paris]
  • Awaiting counter attack by the National Guard, Matagalpa, Nicaragua
  • Tooba Series
  • Haji Qiamuddin holding a photograph of his brother, Asamuddin, Afghan refugee village, Miran Shah, Northwestern Frontier Province, Pakistan
  • Memories (Me)
  • Untitled #341
  • U.S. 10, Post Falls, Idaho, August 25, 1974
  • Sculptures by Elie Nadelman, as I Found Them in His Home after His Death
  • [Row of dining room chairs]
  • [Unidentified Young Man with Bandaged Head]
  • [Album]
  • Nana
  • [Unidentified Woman in Parlor of Photo Studio]
  • [China contact notebook]
  • Sanitation Workers Assemble in Front of Clayborn Temple for a Solidarity March, Memphis, Tennessee
  • [Album of Hugo Huslig's Schooling at St. Lawrence College and His Tragic Death]
  • Edie Sedgwick