Photography and Media
Art Institute of Chicago · 3,769 artworks
The Art Institute's photography collection is among the finest in the world, featuring over 22,000 works from the medium's inception to the present. Key holdings include works by Alfred Stieglitz, Dorothea Lange, and contemporary artists.
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Frederick Douglass
Samuel J. Miller
1847-52
Georgia O'Keeffe—Hands and Thimble
Alfred Stieglitz
1919
Big River, from the Rancherie, Mendocino, California
Carleton Watkins
1863
Two Plant Specimens
William Henry Fox Talbot
1839
Mrs. Herbert Duckworth
Julia Margaret Cameron
April 1867
Nevada Fall (700 feet high), From Foot-Bridge, after Snow Storm in July, No. 1208 from the series "California -- Yo-Semite Valley"
John P. Soule
1870
Lick Brook, near Ithaca, N.Y. 1st Fall
J.C. Burritt
1860/65
Chase-in-the-Morning
F. A. Rinehart
c. 1888
Gate of Christchurch, Oxford
William Henry Fox Talbot
c. 1844
Bust of Patroclus
William Henry Fox Talbot
August 9, 1843
The Soliloquy of the Broom
William Henry Fox Talbot
1843
The Bridge of Orleans
William Henry Fox Talbot
June 1843
Articles of Glass on Three Shelves
William Henry Fox Talbot
c. 1844
Lacock Abbey in Wiltshire
William Henry Fox Talbot
c. 1844
The Haystack
William Henry Fox Talbot
April 1844
Articles of China on Four Shelves
William Henry Fox Talbot
c. 1844
Untitled ("I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance")
Sojourner Truth
1864-65
Traveling by the Underwood Travel System - Stereographs, Guide-Books Patent Map System
Underwood & Underwood
1908
Portrait of Sailor
Chute and Brooks
1875/99
![No. 23. Pugahm Myo [Pagan]. Figures in Damayangyee Pagoda [Dhamma-yan-gyi]. by Linnaeus Tripe](https://images.artheonmuseum.org/aic/thumb/no-23-pugahm-myo-pagan-figures-in-damayangyee-aic-216582.webp)
No. 23. Pugahm Myo [Pagan]. Figures in Damayangyee Pagoda [Dhamma-yan-gyi].
Linnaeus Tripe
1855, printed 1856
Khalias Rock-Hewn Temple, Ellora
Raja Deen Dayal
c. 1890
First View of Yosemite Valley from the Mariposa Trail
Carleton Watkins
1865/66
Uxmal, Indian Bas Relief, Nun's Palace (Uxmal, Bas Relief de l'Indien, Palais des Nonnes), plate 44 from the album "Cités et Ruines Américaines, Gide Paris" (1863)
Désiré Charnay
1860
Untitled (Chicago after the Fire)
George N. Barnard
1871
Articles of China
William Henry Fox Talbot
1843-44
A Burial Party, Cold Harbor, Virginia, pl. 94 from the album "Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War, Volume II" (1866)
John Reekie
April 1865
Gustave Doré
Nadar (Gaspard Félix Tournachon)
1856-58
Mrs. Craik Holding Cat
Benjamin Mulock
c. 1858
![Avignon (Flood of 1856) (Avignon [Inondation de 1856]) by Edouard Denis Baldus](https://images.artheonmuseum.org/aic/thumb/avignon-flood-of-1856-avignon-inondation-de-1856-aic-223186.webp)
Avignon (Flood of 1856) (Avignon [Inondation de 1856])
Edouard Denis Baldus
1856
Darjeeling, India
Samuel Bourne
c. 1865
Kurumba Man
Breeks, James Wilkinson
1873
Degree of Ossification of a Five-Month-Old Fetus (Degré d'ossification d'un Foetus de cinq mois)
Unknown
1898
The Portal of Saint Ursinus at Bourges, rue du Vieux Poirier
Bisson Frères
1854
The Tomb of Itimad-ud-Daulah
Dr. John Murray
c. 1858-62
Angel, Sainte-Chapelle
O. Mestral
1853-54
The Tomb of Itimad-ud-Daulah
Dr. John Murray
c. 1858-62
Interior of Le Géant Inflating
Nadar (Gaspard Félix Tournachon)
1863, printed later
Madame Carrelle
Mayer et Pierson
1856/57
Climbing up the Beams on the Empire State-100 Stories Up
Lewis Wickes Hine
1931
Paris Fire (Interior of the Ministry of Finance), from the series "Paris Incendié"
Charles Soulier
May 1871
Plaster Cast of Body, Pompeii
Giorgio Sommer
1880
The Great Wave, Sète
Gustave Le Gray
1857
The Day's Orders (L'Ordre du Jour)
Camille Silvy
May 1859
Untitled (Portrait of a Man)
Isaac Rehn
1854/83
View of the Boulevards at Paris
William Henry Fox Talbot
1843
Copy of a Large Italian Print, Reduced in the Camera
William Henry Fox Talbot
c. 1840
Copy Print From "Celebrated Inscriptions Ancient Eugubine Tablets"
William Henry Fox Talbot
c. 1844
The Chess Players
William Henry Fox Talbot
1847