In recent years, the Tweed Museum has expanded its photography collection by acquiring both early and contemporary photographs. Since 2005, many gifts and purchases by contemporary photographers have brought the Tweed’s photography collection to over 1,500 artworks. The Tweed’s collection includes some early daguerreotypes and chromolithographs by William Henry Jackson, as well as photographs by Henri Cartier Bresson, Dorothea Lange, Robert Mapplethorpe, Kara Walker.
Gordon Parks (American, 1912-2006), Pastor Ledbetter, Metropolitan Baptist Church, Chicago, 1953, Silver gelatin print. Collection of the Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota Duluth, Sax Brothers Purchase Fund. © Photo Courtesy of and copyright Gordon Parks Foundation.
Esther Bubley (American, 1921-1998), Waiting Room at Greyhound Bus Terminal, NYC, 1947, gelatin silver print (vintage). Collection of the Tweed Museum of Art. Marguerite L. Gilmore Charitable Foundation Fund. © Standard Oil (New Jersey) Collection, Photographic Archives, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky.