With the advent of George Eastman’s Kodak camera and roll film in 1888, photography became an everyday aspect of modern life. Trace the history of the snapshot in America, from the late nineteenth century up to the 1970s, in this special exhibition organized by the National Gallery of Art.

Frank Gohlke (b. 1942) is one of America’s leading landscape photographers. For more than thirty years, he has taken photographs that depict how Americans build their lives within a natural world that rarely matches the pastoral ideal.

A selection of works on paper from the Carter’s collection depict Precisionism, the style employed by Charles Demuth in his paintings in the special exhibition Chimneys and Towers: Charles Demuth’s Late Paintings of Lancaster.

This exhibition examines a key group of paintings from the late career of Charles Demuth (1883–1935), one of America’s preeminent twentieth-century modernist painters. The show places his works within the larger cultural context of the American avant-garde.

The Carter holds one of the country’s largest and most important collections of photographs. This exhibition features works from the earliest years of the medium up to the present day, grouped in categories of portraiture, still life, documentary and street photography, and landscape.

Explore the contributions of the photographers who participated in the U.S. government’s surveys of the West that began in 1867, two years before the completion of the transcontinental railroad. These artists helped shape public knowledge of and opinions about the interior West.

Experience an exhibition of beautiful oil paintings depicting vivid scenes of western expansion within the context of American culture and history in the decade prior to the Civil War.

See seventy works by William H. Johnson (1901–1970) who, in only twenty years, created an extraordinary body of work that is recognized as a major achievement of American modernism.

Compelling images of historic sites of American Indian conflict with the U. S. government and its citizens form the core of this exhibition featuring the work of photographer Drex Brooks (b. 1952).

More than fifty works from the museum’s permanent collection examine the strong tradition of American portraiture.

Enjoy a rare opportunity to view some of the earliest prints from John James Audubon’s double-elephant-folio prints from The Birds of America. Admission is free.

Experience the breathtaking beauty of landscape photography through the lenses of two of the art form’s most important color artists: Eliot Porter and Robert Glenn Ketchum.

Organized by the Library of Congress, this exhibition of seventy little-known color photographs is unique. Taken by photographers of the FSA/OWI between 1939 and 1943, the prints reveal a surprisingly vibrant world that has typically been revisited only through black-and-white images.

A selection from the museum’s important collection of works depicting this war, including fourteen daguerreotypes comprising the first wartime photographs ever made, present new interpretations about the conflict.

Some of the most artful and inspiring works in the history of photography will be on view in the Carter’s 4-600-square-foot Special Exhibition Galleries.

Three recent museum acquisitions—works by Edward Hopper, Joseph Stella, and John Marin—chart the artists’ transformation from drawing distinctively early nineteenth-century subject matter to creating emblems of the modern era.

Look back thirty years to when an explosion of public and museum interest in artistic photography sparked a new experimentalism among younger photographers with their craft.

See revolutionary images created by the innovative American photographer Man Ray (1890–1976), who made cameraless photographs by placing objects like toasters, light bulbs, and irons on photographic paper or film and then exposing the film or paper to light.

Soar above the cities and towns of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Texas to catch a bird’s-eye view of one of the greatest periods of urban growth in Texas history.

These fifty-five photographs made during the fall of 1913 by sociologist-turned-photographer Lewis Hine depict child labor in Texas in the early twentieth century.