NOMA celebrates its century-long relationship to photography with Past Present Future: Building Photography at the New Orleans Museum of Art. This three-part presentation will include first, a partial recreation of a groundbreaking 1918 show at the Delgado Museum of Art (later renamed the New Orleans Museum of Arrt), presenting vintage prints of photographs that were included in the original exhibition. The second component of the exhibition presents an impressive group of works acquired within the past seven years that demonstrate the museum’s commitment to expanding its representation of diverse cultural perspectives from around the globe. The final section will consist of works that have been promised to the institution, signaling how the collection will continue to grow into the future. Past Present Future, along with the recent release of a new book about the collection, Looking Again: Photography at the New Orleans Museum of Art, mark this important moment in the institution’s long relationship with photography, looking at its past with an eye towards its future.
Chrysler Corporation
1932
Margaret Bourke-White
Gelatin silver print
Promised bequest of Tina Freeman
St. Patrick’s Cathedral
1916
William Gordon Shields
Platinum print
Museum purchase, Tina Freeman Photography Fund
Untitled
c. 1930
Sutezo Otono
Gelatin silver print
Museum purchase with funds provided by George and Milly Denegre
Portrait of a Girl from “Mrs. Cameron’s Photographs from the Life”
not dated
Julia Margaret Cameron
Albumen print
Gift of Tina Freeman and Philip Woollam
Fractions
1979
Joel Levinson
Gelatin silver print
Gift of Mark Levinson, 2017.256.13