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Traveling Exhibitions

Defining Moments:
Two Centuries of Photography

Dating from the 1840s to the present, the photographs in Defining Moments are selected from the
Ackland Art Museum's collection of 1,500 photographs. The exhibition is organized according to themes
that have historically defined the medium: landscape, nature close-up, architecture, shapes of industry,
the city, social documentary, portraits and travel. A section devoted to photographic processes focuses
on the variety of ways that images have been created, beginning with the daguerreotype and including
the most recent innovations in color photography.

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Defining Moments includes works by many important photographers:

• Ansel Adams

• Eugène Atget

• Brassai

• Margaret Bourke-White

• Edward Burtynsky

• Henri Cartier-Bresson

• Imogen Cunningham

• Arthur Wesley Dow

• Walker Evans

• Andre Kertesz

• Steven McCurry

• Richard Misrach

• Gordon Parks

• Sebastiao Salgado

• Edward Steichen

• Alfred Stieglitz

• Paul Strand

• Edward Weston