Photography

After a long hiatus, The San Diego Museum of Art has begun actively collecting photography. The Museum continues to build a collection that is particularly strong in the work of photographers and photojournalists of the mid-twentieth century including Margaret Bourke-White, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Gjon Mili.

Other large groups include a series of the environmental portraits of artists and politicians by Arnold Newman, as well as a group of works by San Diego-based photographers ranging from Roland Schneider and Florence Kemmler in the 1920s and 1930s to the contemporary artist Eleanor Antin. An additional group of photographs represents the work of Hugo Brehme and others active in documenting Mexican life and landscapes in the nineteenth and early twentieth century.