Harvard University Art Museums - Department of Photographs - Fogg Art Museums
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Tues.-Fri., 2-4:45
During the academic year: Sat., 10-12:45
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| Fogg Art Museum - Department of Photographs |
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| Phone Numbers: |
| (617) 495-5393 |
| (617) 495-8003 |
| Fax | (617) 496-3800 |
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| Address: | Harvard University Art Museums
Department of Photographs
Fogg Art Museums
32 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138 |
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| Extent of Collections: | Nearly 70,500 photographs and currently acquiring |
| Dates: | 1841 to present |
| Holdings Description: | Founded in 1972, the Fogg Art Museum's photograph collection is comprised of an anthology collection representing the history of fine art photography as well as the aesthetic use of photography largely in the United States and Western Europe from the invention of the medium in 1839 to the present, with special emphasis on modern and contemporary photography (~10,000 photographs). It also holds six research collections that focus on American documentary, social reform, vernacular, and professional photography: Ben Shahn (~5,000 photographs and ~1,000 negatives); Cartes-de-visite and cabinet cards (~20,000 card photographs); Tintypes (~16,400); American Professional Photographers Collection (~1,000 prints and ~16,000 negatives); Social Museum Collection (~4,500 photographs and ~1,500 graphic illustrations); and the Boston Transit Collection (~700 glass plate negatives and prints). The latter three research collections, in addition to a portion of the anthology fine art photography collection, were placed on permanent deposit at the Fogg from the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts in 2002. |
| History: | For a history of the collection see Deborah Martin Kao, "Photography at the Crossroads," in James Cuno et al., Harvard's Art Museums: 100 Years of Collecting (Harvard University Art Museums and Harry N. Abrahms, 1996), 286-291. |
| Printed Guides & Catalogs: | No published guides to the entire collection exist. For texts addressing aspects of the collection see: Deborah Martin Kao, "Photography at the Crossroads," in James Cuno et al., Harvard's Art Museums: 100 Years of Collecting (Harvard University Art Museums and Harry N. Abrahms, 1996), 286-315; Deborah Martin Kao, Laura Katzman, and Jenna Webster, Ben Shahn's New York: The Photography of Modern Times (Yale University Press, 2000); Michelle Lamunière, A New Kind of Historical Evidence: Photographs from the Carpenter Center Collection Harvard University Art Museums Gallery Series, Number 45, 2005. |
| Online Guides & Catalogs: | A portion of the collection is represented by records in HOLLIS, VIA
and "Collections Online" on the Harvard University Art Museums' website (http://www.artmuseums.harvard.edu/home/index.html)
A searchable database of Ben Shahn's art in the collection of the Fogg Art Museum is available at:
http://www.artmuseums.harvard.edu/Shahn/index.html.
A searchable database of the Social Museum Collection is available at
http://www.artmuseums.harvard.edu/socialmuseumcollection.
A searchable database of the Boston Transit Collection is available at
http://www.artmuseums.harvard.edu/btc. |
| Contact for permission to publish requests: | Visual Resources
Harvard University Art Museums
32 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
http://www.artmuseums.harvard.edu/vr
fax: (617) 495-2990
divr@fas.harvard.edu |
| Reproduction services: |
| Photocopying by staff only. |
| Photographic reproduction services. |
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Please address comments and updates to archinfo@hulmail.harvard.edu.
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