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Photography Artists

22,896 works at MoMA 8 nationalities

Leading Artists in Photography

  1. 2239 Unidentified photographer
  2. 1319 Lee Friedlander American
  3. 750 August Sander German
  4. 731 Eugène Atget French
  5. 527 János Kender Hungarian
  6. 478 Dorothea Lange American
  7. 364 Walker Evans American
  8. 360 Garry Winogrand American
  9. 305 Henri Cartier-Bresson French
  10. 287 Ansel Adams American

National Distribution

NationalityWorksShare
American1238254.1%
French19088.3%
German18438%
Hungarian5672.5%
Japanese5052.2%
British3601.6%
Dutch2291%
Argentine1940.8%

Classification Sub-types

Classification Works Share
Photograph 21198 92.6%
Architecture 811 3.5%
Drawing 291 1.3%
Illustrated Book 155 0.7%
Print 151 0.7%
Design 57 0.2%
Frank Lloyd Wright Archive 53 0.2%
Mies van der Rohe Archive 34 0.1%

Department Distribution

  • Photography (MOMA) — 20159
  • Drawings and Prints (MET) — 7363
  • Drawings & Prints (MOMA) — 1421
  • Architecture & Design (MOMA) — 927
  • Media and Performance (MOMA) — 222
  • Photographs (MET) — 121
  • Fluxus Collection (MOMA) — 73
  • Painting & Sculpture (MOMA) — 43
  • Architecture & Design – Image Archive (MOMA) — 28
  • Film (MOMA) — 23

Production by Decade

167
0s
1
1830s
2
1840s
9
1850s
40
1860s
31
1870s
46
1880s
132
1890s
698
1900s
1103
1910s
2089
1920s
3263
1930s
1910
1940s
2060
1950s
3484
1960s
4287
1970s
1519
1980s
1004
1990s
470
2000s
481
2010s
100
2020s

Physical Scale Distribution

Scale bracketWorksShare
Small (< 30 cm)1189858.9%
Medium (30–100 cm)780938.7%
Large (1–3 m)3331.6%
Monumental (> 3 m)1460.7%

Artist Birth Cohorts

4
1800–1824
17
1825–1849
61
1850–1874
217
1875–1899
468
1900–1924
804
1925–1949
273
1950–1974
30
1975–1999
4
2000–2024

Gender of Artists Working in Photography

  • Male — 1,547
  • Female — 375
  • Non-binary — 1
  • Gender non-conformin — 1

On View Now

439 Photography works currently installed in Met galleries