User:Qono/Largest photography collections

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This is a list of the largest photography collections as determined by the number of photographers and by the number of photographs or prints. If the number of photographs or prints is unavailable, the number of photographic objects is used.

This list includes collections representing more than 1,000 photographers or which contain over 200,000 photographs. It does not include editorial and stock agency collections.

List[edit]

Institution Country City Photography collection size Photographers represented
Library of Congress United States Washington, D.C. 16 million images[1] 1,783[2]
Harry Ransom Center United States Austin 5 million prints and negatives[3] 1,985[2]
National Museum of American History United States Washington, D.C. 2 million photographs[4][a] 1,696[2]
Visual Studies Workshop United States Rochester 1,727,000 images[5][b] 2,200[c]
McCord Museum Canada Quebec 1,317,610 photographs[6]
Mystic Seaport United States Connecticut 1,300,000 photographs[7] 1,754[2]
History Colorado United States Denver 1,000,000 images[8] 1,534[2][d]
Munich Stadtmuseum Munich 850,000 photographs[10]
New York Public Library United States New York 500,000 photographs[11] 6,000[11][e]
George Eastman House United States Rochester 400,000 objects[12] 11,000[2]
National Gallery of Canada Canada Ottawa 200,000 photographs[13] 1,197[2]
J. Paul Getty Museum United States Los Angeles 100,000 images[14] 2,057[2]
Center for Creative Photography United States Tuscon 90,000 works[15][16] 1,811[2]
Metropolitan Museum of Art United States New York 75,000 photographs[17] 1,770[2][f]
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston United States Houston 30,000 items[18] 4,000[18][g]
Museum of Modern Art United States New York 25,000 works[19] 1,247[2]
Art Institute of Chicago United States Chicago 24,000 objects[20] 1,207[2]
New Orleans Museum of Art United States New Orleans 12,000 works[21] 1,157[2]
University of New Mexico Art Museum United States Albuquerque 10,000 photographs[22] 1,090[2]
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art United States San Francisco 9,000 works[23] 1,137[2]
Marriott Library United States Salt Lake City 1,103[2][h]
Museum of New Mexico United States Sante Fe 1,000[2][i]
Fotomuseum Antwerpen United States Antwerp 915,000 items[24]
Arab Image Foundation Beirut 600,000 photographs[25]
Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology at Harvard University United States Cambridge 500,000 images[26]
International Center of Photography United States New York 200,000 prints[27]
Center for Railroad Photography & Art United States Madison 200,000 photographs[28]
Victoria & Albert Museum London 300,000 images[29]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ The museum states that the collection consists of "millions of photographs".
  2. ^ The Nathan Lyons Research Center states that it holds 27,000 original prints from 2,200 known photographers, plus over 600,000 anonymous images. This Photographic Print Collection is combined with images from the Soibelman Syndicate News Agency Archive (40,000 photographs), the Lantern Slide Collection (60,000 slides), and the Joseph Selle Fox Movie Flash Collection (approximately one million images) to arrive at the 1,727,000 images in the list.
  3. ^ Eastman says 1,447
  4. ^ Listed as the Colorado Historical Society in the Eastman House publication. History Colorado is the former Colorado Historical Society.[9]
  5. ^ The Geroge Eastman house reported 2,119 photographers in the collection
  6. ^ The "Dept. of Photographs" at the Met is specified in the Eastman house publication.
  7. ^ Eastman cites 1,562 photographers represented in the collections.
  8. ^ "Marriott Library – Manuscripts Division" is specified in the Eastman House publication.
  9. ^ The "Photographic Archives" at the Museum of New Mexico is specified in the Eastman House publication.

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Prints & Photographs Reading Room, Prints & Photographs Division | Library of Congress". www.loc.gov. Retrieved 2019-06-11.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q Eskind, Andrew; Drake, Greg; Ringger, Kirsti; Rumney, Lynne, eds. (1998). International Photography: George Eastman House Index to Photographers, Collections, and Exhibitions. Vol. 1. New York: G.K. Hall & Co. pp. vi. ISBN 0-7838-0325-7.
  3. ^ "Photography". www.hrc.utexas.edu. Retrieved 2019-06-11.
  4. ^ "Photography". National Museum of American History. Retrieved 2019-06-11.
  5. ^ "The Nathan Lyons Research Center". Visual Studies Workshop. Retrieved 2019-06-11.
  6. ^ "Photography | Collections | Musée McCord Museum". collections.musee-mccord.qc.ca. Retrieved 2019-06-11.
  7. ^ "Photography". Collections & Research. 2016-05-16. Retrieved 2019-06-11.
  8. ^ "Photographs and Moving Images | History Colorado". www.historycolorado.org. Retrieved 2019-06-11.
  9. ^ "Publications | History Colorado". www.historycolorado.org. Retrieved 2019-06-10.
  10. ^ "Photography Collection". www.muenchner-stadtmuseum.de. Retrieved 2019-06-11.
  11. ^ a b "Picture Collection". The New York Public Library. Retrieved 2019-06-11.
  12. ^ "George Eastman Museum". GuideStar. Retrieved 2019-05-31.
  13. ^ Saxberg, Lynn (3 May 2018). "National Gallery of Canada displays photos collected over 50 years". Ottawa Citizen. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
  14. ^ "Masterpieces of the J. Paul Getty Museum: Photographs". www.getty.edu. Retrieved 2019-06-11.
  15. ^ "Collections". Center for Creative Photography. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
  16. ^ "About Us". Center for Creative Photography. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
  17. ^ www.metmuseum.org https://www.metmuseum.org/art/libraries-and-research-centers/study-room-for-photographs. Retrieved 2019-06-11. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  18. ^ a b "Photography | The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston". www.mfah.org. Retrieved 2019-06-11.
  19. ^ "Photography | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2019-06-11.
  20. ^ "Photography". The Art Institute of Chicago. Retrieved 2019-06-11.
  21. ^ Looking Again: Photography at the New Orleans Museum of Art. ISBN 1-59711-442-1.
  22. ^ "Photography | UNM Art Museum". Retrieved 2019-06-10.
  23. ^ "Picturing Modernity: Highlights from the Photography Collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art · SFMOMA". www.sfmoma.org. Retrieved 2019-06-10.
  24. ^ "Image". Fotomuseum Provincie Antwerpen. Retrieved 2019-06-11.
  25. ^ Cottard, Clémence; Saad, Charbel; Tabet, Rachel (2017-05-01). "The Arab Image Foundation: Digitizing the Middle East's Photographic Heritage". The Getty Iris. Retrieved 2019-06-11.
  26. ^ "Archival Photographic Collections | Peabody Museum". www.peabody.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2019-06-11.
  27. ^ "Collections". International Center of Photography. 2015-02-04. Retrieved 2019-06-10.
  28. ^ "Railroad Heritage Visual Archive – Center for Railroad Photography & Art". Retrieved 2019-06-11.
  29. ^ "V&A · Photography". Victoria and Albert Museum. Retrieved 2019-06-11.
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