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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Two Plant Specimens
William Henry Fox Talbot
1839
Big River, from the Rancherie, Mendocino, California
Carleton Watkins
1863
Mrs. Herbert Duckworth
Julia Margaret Cameron
April 1867
Georgia O'Keeffe—Hands and Thimble
Alfred Stieglitz
1919
Frederick Douglass
Samuel J. Miller
1847-52
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
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
Traveling by the Underwood Travel System - Stereographs, Guide-Books Patent Map System
Underwood & Underwood
1908
Portrait of Sailor
Chute and Brooks
1875/99
Khalias Rock-Hewn Temple, Ellora
Raja Deen Dayal
c. 1890
First View of Yosemite Valley from the Mariposa Trail
Carleton Watkins
1865/66
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
Darjeeling, India
Samuel Bourne
c. 1865
Interior of Le Géant Inflating
Nadar (Gaspard Félix Tournachon)
1863, printed later
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
The Great Wave, Sète
Gustave Le Gray
1857
Untitled (Portrait of a Man)
Isaac Rehn
1854/83
View of the Boulevards at Paris
William Henry Fox Talbot
1843
The Chess Players
William Henry Fox Talbot
1847
Copy of Botanical Engraving of "Celtis"
William Henry Fox Talbot
1840/45
Ancient Door, Magdalen College, Oxford
William Henry Fox Talbot
c. 1843
Neapolitan Conveyance - Copy of a Painting at Lacock Abbey
William Henry Fox Talbot
c. 1840
Windsor Castle From Across The River
William Henry Fox Talbot
c. 1842/46
Radcliffe Library, Oxford
William Henry Fox Talbot
c. 1841/43
Entrance Lodge, Eaton Hall, Cheshire (Seat of the Marquis of Westminster)
William Henry Fox Talbot
c. 1845
Two Scraps of Lace
William Henry Fox Talbot
c. 1838/42
Botanical Specimen
William Henry Fox Talbot
c. 1835
Tower at Lacock
William Henry Fox Talbot
1837
The Ancient Vestry
William Henry Fox Talbot
September 1845 ?
King's College Chapel, Cambridge, South Entrance
William Henry Fox Talbot
c. 1845
The Fruit Sellers
William Henry Fox Talbot
c. 1842/45
New Hall of Lincoln's Inn, London
William Henry Fox Talbot
c. 1841/46
"One of the Towers of Orleans Cathedral, as Seen from the Opposite Tower"
William Henry Fox Talbot
June 21, 1843
Bodleian Library
William Henry Fox Talbot
c. 1843/46
Melrose Abbey
William Henry Fox Talbot
1844
Melrose Abbey
William Henry Fox Talbot
1844
"A Scene in York" - York Minster from Lop Lane
William Henry Fox Talbot
July 28, 1845
Scenery of Loch Katrine
William Henry Fox Talbot
1844