Chicago Museum Of Contemporary Photography

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The Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP) was founded in 1976 by Columbia College Chicago. It is well known for an active program and curating which discovers many emerging and mid-career artists. The museum houses a permanent collection as well as the Midwest Photographers Project (MPP), which contains portfolios of photographers and artists' work who reside in the midwestern United States.


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Permanent collection

The MoCP's permanent collection focuses on American and International photography of the 20th century and today. The collection features work by Ansel Adams, Harry Callahan, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Julia Margaret Cameron, Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Irving Penn, Aaron Siskind, and Victor Skrebneski among the 10,000-plus photographs and photographically related objects, including gelatin-silver prints, color work, digital pieces, photograms, and various alternative processes.


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Selected exhibitions

Of the Museum's exhibitions since 2001, notable ones have included:

  • Paul Shambroom: Evidence of Democracy, October 3 - December 5, 2003
  • Michael Wolf: The Transparent City and Work/Place, November 14, 2008 - January 31, 2009
  • Guy Tillim: Avenue Patrice Lumumba, January 10 - March 6, 2011

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