Museum Exhibition
A Field Guide to Photography and Media
Art Institute of Chicago
November 19, 2022 – April 10, 2023
Celebrating the history and impact of photography through the Art Institute’s collection, this exhibition features more than 150 works that cut across time, space, and genre.
Exhibition artworks
Representative work
Alfred Stieglitz
The Net Mender
1894
Carbon print
Image: 41.8 × 54.3 cm (16 1/2 × 21 7/16 in.); Paper/mount: 42 × 54.5 cm (16 9/16 × 21 1/2 in.)
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Alfred Stieglitz
Georgia O'Keeffe—Hands and Thimble
1919
Palladium print
Image: 24.4 × 19.4 cm (9 5/8 × 7 11/16 in.); Paper: 25.1 × 20.3 cm (9 15/16 × 8 in.)
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Unknown
Untitled (Fern Study), c. 1850, from the Hatton Fern Album
c. 1850
Cyanotype and fern
Template paper: 37.4 × 26 cm (14 3/4 × 10 1/4 in.); Cyanotype image: 23.3 × 18 cm (9 3/16 × 7 1/8 in.); Cyanotype paper: 27.7 × 19.3 cm (10 15/16 × 7 5/8 in.)
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Benjamin Mulock
Mrs. Craik Holding Cat
c. 1858
Salted paper print
Image/paper: 11.7 × 9.6 cm (4 5/8 × 3 13/16 in.)
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Camille Silvy
The Day's Orders (L'Ordre du Jour)
May 1859
Albumen print
Image/paper: 24.9 × 18.6 cm (9 13/16 × 7 3/8 in.); Mount: 40.5 × 30.3 cm (16 × 11 15/16 in.)
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Chute and Brooks
Portrait of Sailor
1875/99
Albumen print
Image: 15 × 10.2 cm (5 15/16 × 4 1/16 in.); Card: 16.4 × 10.6 cm (6 1/2 × 4 3/16 in.)
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Désiré Charnay
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)
1860
Albumen print
40 × 27 cm (15 3/4 × 10 11/16 in.)
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