“Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography” at MoMA

“For much of photography’s 170-year history, women have expanded its roles by experimenting with every aspect of the medium. Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography presents a selection of outstanding photographs by women artists, charting the medium’s history from the dawn of the modern period to the present. Including over two hundred works, this exhibition features celebrated masterworks and new acquisitions from the collection by such figures as Diane Arbus, Berenice Abbott, Claude Cahun, Imogen Cunningham, Rineke Dijkstra, Florence Henri, Roni Horn, Nan Goldin, Helen Levitt, Lisette Model, Lucia Moholy, Tina Modotti, Cindy Sherman, Kiki Smith, and Carrie Mae Weems, among many others. “

Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography” – now until 2011

The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53 Street, New York, NY

(Images: Tina Modotti- “Workers Parade”,  1926 and  Ilse Bing- “Self-Portrait in Mirrors”’ 1931)

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