Featuring masterpieces by photographers such as William Fox Talbot, André Kertész, and Edward Weston,Photography at NOMA: Selections from the Permanent Collection explores the museum’s extensive 10,000 – work photography collection and demonstrates the city of New Orleans’ role in the history of photography. In the first comprehensive display of works from its collection since the 1970s, the exhibition will include 130 photographs spanning from the early 1840s to the present and created by some of the most recognizable names in the field, including Robert Mapplethorpe, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Robert Frank, as well as by anonymous photographers. Images of New Orleans will be a connecting thread throughout the exhibition.

Sponsors / Partners

Photography at NOMA: Selections from the Permanent Collection is organized by the New Orleans Museum of Art. Major support for the exhibition is provided by Kitty and Stephen Sherrill, Adrea Heebe and Dominick Russo, Dr. H. Russell Albright, Joshua Mann Pailet, Josephine Sacabo and Ms. E. Alexandra Stafford. Additional support for the exhibition is provided by E. John Bullard, A. L. Jung III, Cherye R. and James F. Pierce and the New Orleans Photo Alliance.