Masterworks from the History of Photography … An Exhibit from The American Museum of Photography

  

 

What makes a photographic masterpiece? It might be a perfectly balanced still-life, bathed in natural light. It might be a stirring portrait or a captured moment of history or a sublime landscape. Great photographs can intrigue us, astound us, mystify us, move us.

The photographs in this exhibition–all drawn from a private collection–share a special, intangible quality that sets them apart from the billions of other camera images taken over the last 168 years.