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AIC: Photography (Bot) @aicphotography.bsky.social · 22m

Sheep on Winter Range, Breaks of the Yellowstone www.artic.edu/artworks/118850

Gift of David C. and Sarajean Ruttenberg

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AIC: Photography (Bot) @aicphotography.bsky.social · 14h

Cattle on the Marshes www.artic.edu/artworks/145587

Ada Turnbull Hertle Fund

AIC: Photography (Bot) @aicphotography.bsky.social · 17h

New York 294 www.artic.edu/artworks/104900

Although he began his career as a documentarian, Aaron Siskind quickly became known for photographs that concerned themselves with exploring internal formal relationships rather than depicting recognizable objects. Active in the artistic milieu of postwar New York, Siskind made photographs in dialogue with the work of the Abstract Expressionist painters, with whom he was socially and professionally close. He sought to find a new language for photographic depiction that could transcend what was in front of the camera. “First, and emphatically,” he wrote in 1950, “I accept the flat plane of the picture surface as the primary frame of reference of the picture.” Siskind’s radically abstract photographs of walls covered with graffiti, chalk, or peeling paint and paper would be recognized as a pioneering development in 20th-century photography.

Gift of David and Theresa Snyder

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AIC: Photography (Bot) @aicphotography.bsky.social · 19h

The Invalid Doll www.artic.edu/artworks/144639

Restricted gift of Anstiss and Ronald Krueck

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AIC: Photography (Bot) @aicphotography.bsky.social · 20h

He don't like his Pants www.artic.edu/artworks/152558

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AIC: Photography (Bot) @aicphotography.bsky.social · 23h

Untitled (The People's Savings & Loan Association Bank) www.artic.edu/artworks/49134

Photography Department Exhibition funds

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AIC: Photography (Bot) @aicphotography.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Seaweed 8 www.artic.edu/artworks/189384

Gift of Richard and Ellen Sandor in honor of John Bryan

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AIC: Photography (Bot) @aicphotography.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Field Museum, Eskimo Curlew, Kansas, 1891 www.artic.edu/artworks/184491

Gift of Ralph and Nancy Segall

AIC: Photography (Bot) @aicphotography.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Cathedral at Tours (from 200 ft. altitude) www.artic.edu/artworks/94372

Edward Steichen was one of the most influential photographers of the 20th century—a pioneering champion of art photography and an innovator in fashion and commercial photography. Lesser known, however, is his important role in World War I, as chief of the Photographic Section of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) from 1917 to 1919. Steichen, who had come to regard France as a second homeland after living there from 1906 to 1914, was quick to enlist once the United Statesa officially entered the war in 1917. Though at 38 he was eight years older than the Signal Corps age limit, his experience as a photographer made him a valuable recruit, and he entered active duty in July 1917 as a first lieutenant.
World War I, sometimes called the first “modern” war, was marked by groundbreaking advances in technology, including photography. Steichen intended to be “a photographic reporter, as Mathew Brady had been in the Civil War,” but he quickly abandoned this romantic notion to help implement one of the newest weapons—aerial photography. Taking images from airplanes made it possible not only to observe a wide swath of the battlefield but also to track daily changes on the front lines.
Steichen was assigned to the newly formed Photographic Section, led by Major James Barnes, and together they oversaw the training and outfitting of aerial-photography and surveillance units that proved their usefulness over the course of the war. Steichen also worked to standardize cameras, materials, and formats across the various national armies in order to simplify cooperation among the Allied forces.
This album was assembled by Steichen in 1919 from prints he kept after his military discharge. Many such pictures entered public and private collections; in some cases, they were assembled into albums that chronicled aerial photography during the war. Steichen’s pride in his work for the AEF is made clear in this unique compilation, which he personally captioned and dedicated to a member of a prominent family of art patrons.
To learn more about this album, visit http://archive.artic.edu/steichen/index.html.

Gift of William Kistler

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AIC: Photography (Bot) @aicphotography.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Untitled (The Rookery) www.artic.edu/artworks/49110

Photography Department Exhibition funds

AIC: Photography (Bot) @aicphotography.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Mr. Joseph Joachim www.artic.edu/artworks/120125

Estate of Harold Joachim

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AIC: Photography (Bot) @aicphotography.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The Madame B Album www.artic.edu/artworks/200970

The Mary and Leigh Block Endowment Fund

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AIC: Photography (Bot) @aicphotography.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Protest Surrounding the Construction of Narita Airport www.artic.edu/artworks/208660

Protests saturated postwar Japan’s political landscape. In 1960 public demonstrations were sparked by the ratification of a lopsided security treaty between Japan and the United States, which was escalating involvement in Vietnam. Large-scale protests were also mounted against the construction of Narita Airport, led by leftists who opposed the airport out of antimilitarist, anti-American sentiments, as well as farmers whose land would be seized in order to make room for the massive facility. While the airport was completed in 1972, it only opened in 1978 after the government finally quelled the dogged resisters. This picture is one of a group of 500 made anonymously by one or more protesters against the airport, and purchased by the Art Institute in 2010.

Photography Gala Fund

AIC: Photography (Bot) @aicphotography.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Cousin "Bichonnade" in Flight www.artic.edu/artworks/47117

Kathleen W. Harvey Memorial Fund

AIC: Photography (Bot) @aicphotography.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Willie Ricks was one of SNCC’s great stump speakers, capable of getting great emotional responses from a crowd. During the Meredith March in Mississippi, where King and Stokely Carmichael marched side by side, it was Ricks who first... www.artic.edu/artworks/234095

Gift of Dr. Daveed D. Frazier

AIC: Photography (Bot) @aicphotography.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

On Gorleston Sands www.artic.edu/artworks/229749

Ernest Kahn Endowment; Arnold Crane Endowment; Photography Purchase Fund

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AIC: Photography (Bot) @aicphotography.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Kärnthnerstraβe No. 59, Zinshaus des Herrn Sam Maeir www.artic.edu/artworks/234509

The Mary and Leigh Block Endowment Fund

AIC: Photography (Bot) @aicphotography.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Thought www.artic.edu/artworks/210887

Abelardo Morell’s series on books depicts them simultaneously as conveyors of information and as palpable, even multisensory, objects. In 1995 he accepted a position as artist-in-residence at the Boston Athenaeum, an independent library and museum that was founded in 1807. “One of the big pleasures of this project has come from spending a good amount of time looking at, holding, smelling, and reading a terrific number of skinny, fat, tall, pompous, modest, funny, sad, proud, injured, and radiant books,” he later wrote. Recognizing that the physical features of books affect our perception of their contents, Morell transformed these humble, familiar things in ways that continue to occupy him to this day. In this work, he injected a note of humor, chuckling at the idea that all of human thought could be contained in this single volume.

Gift of Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser

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AIC: Photography (Bot) @aicphotography.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Mrs. Craik www.artic.edu/artworks/34970

Harriott A. Fox Endowment

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AIC: Photography (Bot) @aicphotography.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Caroline Law www.artic.edu/artworks/194239

Gift of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

AIC: Photography (Bot) @aicphotography.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Untitled (Portrait of Man) www.artic.edu/artworks/189264

Gift of Helen Harvey Mills

AIC: Photography (Bot) @aicphotography.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Untitled www.artic.edu/artworks/150473

Gift of Arnold and Temmie Gilbert

AIC: Photography (Bot) @aicphotography.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Stairs, Montmartre www.artic.edu/artworks/125490

Gift of Nicholas and Susan Pritzker

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AIC: Photography (Bot) @aicphotography.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Protest Surrounding the Construction of Narita Airport www.artic.edu/artworks/208940

Protests saturated postwar Japan’s political landscape. In 1960 public demonstrations were sparked by the ratification of a lopsided security treaty between Japan and the United States, which was escalating involvement in Vietnam. Large-scale protests were also mounted against the construction of Narita Airport, led by leftists who opposed the airport out of antimilitarist, anti-American sentiments, as well as farmers whose land would be seized in order to make room for the massive facility. While the airport was completed in 1972, it only opened in 1978 after the government finally quelled the dogged resisters. This picture is one of a group of 500 made anonymously by one or more protesters against the airport, and purchased by the Art Institute in 2010.

Photography Gala Fund

AIC: Photography (Bot) @aicphotography.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Protest Surrounding the Construction of Narita Airport www.artic.edu/artworks/208803

Protests saturated postwar Japan’s political landscape. In 1960 public demonstrations were sparked by the ratification of a lopsided security treaty between Japan and the United States, which was escalating involvement in Vietnam. Large-scale protests were also mounted against the construction of Narita Airport, led by leftists who opposed the airport out of antimilitarist, anti-American sentiments, as well as farmers whose land would be seized in order to make room for the massive facility. While the airport was completed in 1972, it only opened in 1978 after the government finally quelled the dogged resisters. This picture is one of a group of 500 made anonymously by one or more protesters against the airport, and purchased by the Art Institute in 2010.

Photography Gala Fund

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AIC: Photography (Bot) @aicphotography.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Old Vennel off High Street www.artic.edu/artworks/234006

Simeon B. Williams Endowment

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AIC: Photography (Bot) @aicphotography.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Saddle Rock www.artic.edu/artworks/198473

Gift of Harold Allen

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AIC: Photography (Bot) @aicphotography.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Piedmont Biofuels, Pittsboro, North Carolina www.artic.edu/artworks/186126

Gift of Ralph and Nancy Segall

AIC: Photography (Bot) @aicphotography.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Untitled www.artic.edu/artworks/119561

Gift of David C. and Sarajean Ruttenberg

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AIC: Photography (Bot) @aicphotography.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Tilly Losch www.artic.edu/artworks/97355

Bequest of Edward Steichen by direction of Joanna T. Steichen and George Eastman House

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AIC: Photography (Bot) @aicphotography.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Into the entrance of Rood's Glen www.artic.edu/artworks/198405

Gift of Harold Allen

AIC: Photography (Bot) @aicphotography.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Untitled [from Circulation, October 12 #123] www.artic.edu/artworks/243001

Gift of Gen Nakahira

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AIC: Photography (Bot) @aicphotography.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Blessed Art Thou Among Women www.artic.edu/artworks/103529

Gift of Daniel, Richard, and Jonathan Logan

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AIC: Photography (Bot) @aicphotography.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Portrait de Theophile Gautier d'apres Nadar www.artic.edu/artworks/100097

Restricted gift of Helen Harvey Mills in memory of her mother Kathleen W. Harvey

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AIC: Photography (Bot) @aicphotography.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Bob Colacello www.artic.edu/artworks/194304

In the early 1970s, at the height of his fame, Andy Warhol began producing staged Polaroid portraits of celebrities, friends, and casual acquaintances, many of them studies for his commissioned silkscreen prints and paintings. His tool of choice was a Polaroid Big Shot, an instant film camera fitted with a fixed focal length that made it ideal for portraiture. Warhol often took multiple photographs of his subjects in order to capture their behavioral nuances. The tightly cropped format and a camera-mounted flash reduced features to flat planes and abstract shapes, making the images perfect for use in the silkscreen process. The sitter featured here, Bob Colacello, writer and former editor of Warhol's Interview magazine, recalled that the artist tried to convince him to change his name to Bob Cola, as this "pop" reference would lend itself to fame.

Gift of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

AIC: Photography (Bot) @aicphotography.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hailey www.artic.edu/artworks/158090

Gift of Kenneth Josephson in memory of Arnold Gilbert

AIC: Photography (Bot) @aicphotography.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

King's Weir, River Lea www.artic.edu/artworks/145628

Restricted gift of William Mares

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AIC: Photography (Bot) @aicphotography.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Untitled (Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy) www.artic.edu/artworks/249874

The W. Bruce and Delaney H. Lundberg Collection, restricted gift of The Phillip Leonian and Edith Rosenbaum Leonian Charitable Trust

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AIC: Photography (Bot) @aicphotography.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Robert Browning www.artic.edu/artworks/50771

Restricted gift of Lucia Woods

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AIC: Photography (Bot) @aicphotography.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Sky Diver www.artic.edu/artworks/158597

Gift of Robert Heinecken

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AIC: Photography (Bot) @aicphotography.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

S. J. Perelman, New York www.artic.edu/artworks/144805

Gift of Irving Penn

AIC: Photography (Bot) @aicphotography.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Copy Print From "Celebrated Inscriptions Ancient Eugubine Tablets" www.artic.edu/artworks/38979

When William Henry Fox Talbot, one of the inventors of photography, presented his initial findings in January 1839, he proposed a variety of applications for his new discovery, which he called “photogenic drawing.” He presciently detailed how it could be used for portraits, landscape, architecture, and depictions of objects seen in the microscope—but also as a tool for copying drawings and engravings. Here Talbot—an expert in ancient languages as well as chemistry—photographically reproduced a page showing a copy of inscriptions in a native Umbrian alphabet from one of seven ancient bronze tablets discovered in Italy in the 15th century.

Edward E. Ayer Endowment in memory of Charles L. Hutchinson

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AIC: Photography (Bot) @aicphotography.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Protest Surrounding the Construction of Narita Airport www.artic.edu/artworks/208841

Protests saturated postwar Japan’s political landscape. In 1960 public demonstrations were sparked by the ratification of a lopsided security treaty between Japan and the United States, which was escalating involvement in Vietnam. Large-scale protests were also mounted against the construction of Narita Airport, led by leftists who opposed the airport out of antimilitarist, anti-American sentiments, as well as farmers whose land would be seized in order to make room for the massive facility. While the airport was completed in 1972, it only opened in 1978 after the government finally quelled the dogged resisters. This picture is one of a group of 500 made anonymously by one or more protesters against the airport, and purchased by the Art Institute in 2010.

Photography Gala Fund

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AIC: Photography (Bot) @aicphotography.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Lynmouth from the Sea www.artic.edu/artworks/38287

Restricted gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles C. Cunningham

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AIC: Photography (Bot) @aicphotography.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Jonesborough, TN www.artic.edu/artworks/184392

Restricted gift of Elizabeth Bryan Seebeck

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AIC: Photography (Bot) @aicphotography.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Turner and Merton Avenues, Glen Ellyn, Illinois www.artic.edu/artworks/54647

Gift of Douglas R. Gilbert

AIC: Photography (Bot) @aicphotography.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Untitled, from "Circulation" www.artic.edu/artworks/235673

Through prior gift of Arnold Gilbert and Kiyoko Lerner

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AIC: Photography (Bot) @aicphotography.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Untitled www.artic.edu/artworks/240818

Restricted gift of Lucia Woods Lindley and Daniel A. Lindley, Jr.

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AIC: Photography (Bot) @aicphotography.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Issey Miyake Staircase Dress, New York www.artic.edu/artworks/157080

Gift of Irving Penn

AIC: Photography (Bot) @aicphotography.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Protest Surrounding the Construction of Narita Airport www.artic.edu/artworks/208967

Protests saturated postwar Japan’s political landscape. In 1960 public demonstrations were sparked by the ratification of a lopsided security treaty between Japan and the United States, which was escalating involvement in Vietnam. Large-scale protests were also mounted against the construction of Narita Airport, led by leftists who opposed the airport out of antimilitarist, anti-American sentiments, as well as farmers whose land would be seized in order to make room for the massive facility. While the airport was completed in 1972, it only opened in 1978 after the government finally quelled the dogged resisters. This picture is one of a group of 500 made anonymously by one or more protesters against the airport, and purchased by the Art Institute in 2010.

Photography Gala Fund