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class="background-primary-color"> <div class="container"> <div class="row space-before"> <div class="col-12"> <div class="field field--name-dynamic-block-fieldnode-breadcrumbs field--type-ds field--label-hidden field__item"> <nav aria-label="breadcrumb"> <h2 id="system-breadcrumb" class="visually-hidden">Breadcrumb</h2> <ol class="breadcrumb"> <li class="breadcrumb-item"> <a href="/">Home</a> </li> <li class="breadcrumb-item"> <a href="/collections">Collections</a> </li> </ol> </nav> </div> <div class="field field--name-node-title field--type-ds field--label-hidden field__item"><h1 class="space-after"> Photography </h1> </div>  <div class="desktop d-none d-lg-block"> <div id="field--name-field-banner-382195335-desktop" class="field field--name-field-banner field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden carousel slide carousel-fade" data-bs-wrap="true">  <div class="carousel-inner" role="listbox"> <div class="carousel-item active"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-lg-12"> <div 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<div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-credit field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Henri Cartier-Bresson, <em>Madrid, Spain</em>, 1933. Photograph, gelatin silver print. The Howard Greenberg Collection—Museum purchase with funds donated by the Phillip Leonian and Edith Rosenbaum Leonian Charitable Trust. </p></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div>   </div> </div>  <div class="mobile d-lg-none"> <div id="field--name-field-banner-382195335" class="field field--name-field-banner field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden carousel slide carousel-fade" data-bs-wrap="true">  <div class="carousel-inner" role="listbox"> <div class="carousel-item active"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-lg-12"> <div class="row bs-1col media media--type-image media--view-mode-promo-9-column"> <div class="col-sm-12 bs-region bs-region--main"> <div class="field-credit-overlay"> <div class="field field--name-field-media-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <picture> <source srcset="https://d1nn9x4fgzyvn4.cloudfront.net/styles/scaled_1980_wide/s3/migration-slide-image/4x3_madrid-spain.jpg?itok=JpX6oIzC 1x, https://d1nn9x4fgzyvn4.cloudfront.net/styles/scaled_1980_wide/s3/migration-slide-image/4x3_madrid-spain.jpg?itok=JpX6oIzC 2x" media="(min-width: 1200px)" type="image/jpeg" width="1760" height="1320"/> <source srcset="https://d1nn9x4fgzyvn4.cloudfront.net/styles/scaled_1536_wide/s3/migration-slide-image/4x3_madrid-spain.jpg?itok=8k8MWHna 1x, https://d1nn9x4fgzyvn4.cloudfront.net/styles/scaled_1980_wide/s3/migration-slide-image/4x3_madrid-spain.jpg?itok=JpX6oIzC 2x" media="(max-width: 1199.98px)" type="image/jpeg" width="1536" height="1152"/> <source srcset="https://d1nn9x4fgzyvn4.cloudfront.net/styles/scaled_1152_wide/s3/migration-slide-image/4x3_madrid-spain.jpg?itok=QqAVNqSc 1x, https://d1nn9x4fgzyvn4.cloudfront.net/styles/scaled_1980_wide/s3/migration-slide-image/4x3_madrid-spain.jpg?itok=JpX6oIzC 2x" media="(max-width: 991.98px)" type="image/jpeg" width="1152" height="864"/> <source srcset="https://d1nn9x4fgzyvn4.cloudfront.net/styles/scaled_780_wide/s3/migration-slide-image/4x3_madrid-spain.jpg?itok=kmKT2kuX 1x, https://d1nn9x4fgzyvn4.cloudfront.net/styles/scaled_1536_wide/s3/migration-slide-image/4x3_madrid-spain.jpg?itok=8k8MWHna 2x" media="(max-width: 767.98px)" type="image/jpeg" width="780" height="585"/> <img loading="eager" width="780" height="585" src="https://d1nn9x4fgzyvn4.cloudfront.net/styles/scaled_780_wide/s3/migration-slide-image/4x3_madrid-spain.jpg?itok=kmKT2kuX" class="img-fluid" /> </picture> </div> <div class="credit-content"> <button class="credit-content-label">Credit</button> <div class="credit-wrapper"> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-credit field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Henri Cartier-Bresson, <em>Madrid, Spain</em>, 1933. Photograph, gelatin silver print. The Howard Greenberg Collection—Museum purchase with funds donated by the Phillip Leonian and Edith Rosenbaum Leonian Charitable Trust. </p></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="container"> <div class="row g-0"> <div class="col-lg-10 offset-lg-1"> <div class="row"> <div class="order-1 order-lg-2 space-before col-12 col-lg-9"> <div class="region region-content"> <div id="block-system-main-block" class="block block-system block-system-main-block"> <div data-history-node-id="2519" class="row node node--type-page node--view-mode-full"> <div class="col-lg-10"> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item"><a id="field--name-body--2519" class="content-anchor"></a><p>The Museum announced in September 2018 the acquisition of the <a href="/collections/photography/howard-greenberg-collection">Howard Greenberg Collection of Photographs</a>, funded by a major gift from the Phillip Leonian and Edith Rosenbaum Leonian Charitable Trust. Carefully assembled over more than three decades, the collection comprises 447 photographs by 191 artists, including rare prints of modernist masterpieces and mid-20th-century classics. Social history and the human experience form an important thread of the collection, presented through documentary photography and photojournalism. Major works from between the wars in Europe, among others, also trace the evolution of photography as an art form. An exhibition of works from the Howard Greenberg Collection was on view at the MFA from August 10 through December 15, 2019.</p><hr><p>The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, was one of the earliest museums in the country to collect photography, initiated in 1924 when Alfred Stieglitz donated 27 of his photographs. A complementary group of 35 additional Stieglitz photographs was given in 1950 by the photographer’s widow Georgia O’Keeffe. Additional strengths of the collection include daguerreotypes by Southworth and Hawes; sublime landscapes of the American West; turn-of-the-century Pictorialism; the Lane Collection (including substantial holdings of Charles Sheeler, Edward Weston, and Ansel Adams); European and central European photography from between the wars (including the Sonja Bullaty and Angelo Lomeo Collection of Josef Sudek photographs); European post-war Subjective photography; sizable groups of works by Harry Callahan and Emmet Gowin; mountain photographs by Bradford Washburn; portraits of internationally known figures by Yousuf Karsh; and fashion and celebrity images by Herb Ritts.</p><p>Photography exhibitions can be found in the MFA’s Herb Ritts Gallery, the Museum’s first gallery dedicated to the medium, which was endowed in 2007 and is located on the first floor. Additional exhibitions, as well as individual works, can also often be found throughout the Museum's galleries.</p><h2>The Morse Study Room</h2><p>The Morse Study Room for Works on Paper provides access to the MFA’s collections of American and European prints, drawings, and photographs. The Study Room is open for individual study and groups of up to 15 people, including college classes. Available windows for individual and class appointments are Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 10 am–12 pm and 1:30–4 pm.</p><p>Object selection, to be made in advance in consultation with a staff member, should include no more than 20 objects (or fewer, depending on fragility and size). Please allow four weeks lead time for individual appointment requests, and six weeks for classes.</p><p>Please e-mail Anne Havinga at <a href="mailto:ahavinga@mfa.org">ahavinga@mfa.org</a> to schedule an appointment to view works in the Department of Photography.</p><p>Please e-mail Meghan Melvin at <a href="mailto:mmelvin@mfa.org">mmelvin@mfa.org</a> to schedule an appointment to view works in the Department of Prints and Drawings.</p><h2>Related Pages</h2><ul class="link-list"><li><a href="/collections/photography/howard-greenberg-collection">The Howard Greenberg Collection</a></li></ul><h2>Highlights</h2><div class="row space-after"><div class="col-md-6"><a href="https://collections.mfa.org/collections/315203"><img class="img-fluid img-responsive" src="https://d1nn9x4fgzyvn4.cloudfront.net/styles/860x645/s3/migration-slide-image/E12632_crop_4x3%283%29.jpg" alt="Photograph of Georgia O'Keeffe by Alfred Stieglitz" width="860" height="645" loading="lazy"></a><h3 class="h4"><a href="https://collections.mfa.org/collections/315203">Alfred Stieglitz</a></h3></div><div class="col-md-6"><a href="https://collections.mfa.org/collections/315204"><img class="img-fluid img-responsive" src="https://d1nn9x4fgzyvn4.cloudfront.net/styles/860x645/s3/migration-slide-image/SC302569_4x3.jpg" alt="Detail of Josef Sudek's photograph, Labyrinth in my Atelier" width="860" height="645" loading="lazy"></a><h3 class="h4"><a href="https://collections.mfa.org/collections/315204">Josef Sudek</a></h3></div></div><div class="row space-after"><div class="col-md-6"><a href="https://collections.mfa.org/collections/315202"><img class="img-fluid img-responsive" src="https://d1nn9x4fgzyvn4.cloudfront.net/styles/860x645/s3/migration-slide-image/2000-886-CR2850-d1_4x3.jpg" alt="Photograph of Jack Nicholson by Herb Ritts" width="860" height="645" loading="lazy"></a><h3 class="h4"><a href="https://collections.mfa.org/collections/315202">Herb Ritts</a></h3></div><div class="col-md-6"><a href="https://collections.mfa.org/collections/315206"><img class="img-fluid img-responsive" src="https://d1nn9x4fgzyvn4.cloudfront.net/styles/860x645/s3/migration-slide-image/Southworth-and-Hawes-cover-.jpg" alt="Detail of Southworth and Hawes' photograph of Benjamin F. French" width="860" height="645" loading="lazy"></a><h3 class="h4"><a href="https://collections.mfa.org/collections/315206">Southworth and Hawes</a></h3></div></div><div class="row space-after"><div class="col-md-6"><a href="https://collections.mfa.org/collections/315205"><img class="img-fluid img-responsive" src="https://d1nn9x4fgzyvn4.cloudfront.net/styles/860x645/s3/migration-slide-image/SC9396_4x3.jpg" alt="Bradford Washburn's photograph, Bob Reeve with his Ever-present Cigarette and Holder, Valdez Mudflats, Alaska" width="860" height="645" loading="lazy"></a><h3 class="h4"><a href="https://collections.mfa.org/collections/315205">Bradford Washburn</a></h3></div><div class="col-md-6"><a href="https://collections.mfa.org/collections/315207"><img class="img-fluid img-responsive" src="https://d1nn9x4fgzyvn4.cloudfront.net/styles/860x645/s3/migration-slide-image/SC201765_4x3.jpg" alt="Yousuf Karsh's photography of Estrellita Karsh" width="860" height="645" loading="lazy"></a><h3 class="h4"><a href="https://collections.mfa.org/collections/315207">Yousuf Karsh</a></h3></div></div></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="order-3 col-12 col-lg-3 secondary-text-lg space-before"> <div class="region region-sidebar-second"> <div class="views-element-container block block-views block-views-blocksecondary-content-block-1" id="block-views-block-secondary-content-block-1"> <div><div class="view view-secondary-content view-id-secondary_content view-display-id-block_1 js-view-dom-id-44e90995b038bd691164f8a677d3da99313fe4e2b14b4a1db8144a534406983e"> <div><h2>Curators Circle</h2><p>A unique opportunity for upper level members to take a deep dive into the collections. 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