This powerful exhibition encompasses more than 150 years of photography, with more than 100 photographs from one of the finest photographic collections in the nation. It features the different interests, approaches and styles of dozens of photographers throughout the medium’s history, as it evolved from a documentary medium to a creative endeavor – with works from the earliest days in the 1840s by such innovators as William Henry Fox Talbot, to recent, computer generated images from NASA. The exhibition includes works by such icons of the medium as Ansel Adams, Alfred Stieglitz, Timothy O’Sullivan, Lewis Carroll, Julia Margaret Cameron, Eadweard Muybridge, Paul Strand, Cecil Beaton, Walker Evans, Margaret Bourke-White, Robert Capa, Imogen Cunningham, Man Ray, Edward Steichen, Jacob Riis, Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Cindy Sherman, Henri Le Secq, and Bernice Abbott, among others.