Picturing Modernity

Picturing Modernity

Robert Adams, Longmont, 1973; gelatin silver print; collection of the Sack Photographic Trust; © Robert Adams

Picturing Modernity

William Eggleston, Untitled, Memphis, 1970; photograph; dye transfer print; Collection SFMOMA, gift of Laurence A. Short; © Eggleston Artistic Trust

Picturing Modernity

Garry Winogrand, Untitled, from the portfolio Women Are Beautiful, ca. 1970; gelatin silver print; Collection SFMOMA, gift of Dr. L. F. Peede, Jr.; © 1984 The Estate of Garry Winogrand, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco

Picturing Modernity

Stephen Shore, Michael and Sandy Marsh, Amarillo, Texas, from the series Uncommon Places, 1974; photograph; chromogenic print; Collection SFMOMA, gift of Fern Magonet Schad in memory of Tennyson Schad; © Stephen Shore

Picturing Modernity

Bruce Nauman, Study for Hologram, 1970; print; screen print; Collection SFMOMA, gift of Carla Emil and Rich Silverstein; © 2011 Bruce Nauman / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Picturing Modernity

Lucas Samaras, Photo-Transformation, November 22, 1973, 1973; photograph; dye diffusion transfer print; Collection SFMOMA, William L. Gerstle Collection, William L. Gerstle Fund purchase; © Lucas Samaras

Ongoing

This changing selection of pictures from SFMOMA's world-renowned photography collection focuses on American photography from the 1970s, highlighting the museum's rich holdings from that fertile decade.

This exhibition will be closed for installation October 24 through November 1, 2011.