Thursday, December 07, 2006

Carnegie Museum of Art Collection of Photographs

Carnegie Museum of Art Collection of Photographs Carnegie Museum of Art Collection of Photographs. "...The collection comprises nearly two thousand prints of Pittsburgh and Southwestern Pennsylvania from the late nineteenth through the late twentieth century. The images, acquired from the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh in 1982, are especially rich in scenes of Pittsburgh from the first half of the twentieth century. The series is composed of photographs by internationally regarded photographers such as Margaret Bourke-White and W. Eugene Smith, as well as lesser-known photographers such as Luke Swank, Hugh Torrance, Sol Libsohn, and Frank Bingaman. There are also many striking photographs by unknown photographers." Also... the Pittsburgh City Photographer Collection, 1901-1994.

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