Announced · Opens 4 Oct 2026

Photography's First Century

Name: Photography's First Century: Masterworks from the Bibliothèque nationale de France
Start: 2026-10-04
End: 2027-01-17
Location: Kimbell Art Museum

Masterworks from the Bibliothèque nationale de France

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York — Purchase, Jennifer and Joseph Duke and Lila Acheson Wallace Gifts, 2000

Photography's First Century opens at Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, United States, on October 4, 2026 and runs to January 17, 2027.

Last verified August 25, 2026 · Official source ↗

The Kimbell's inaugural photography exhibition surveys the medium's first century of exploration and discovery, from the rise of the daguerreotype and calotype in the 1840s to the age of modernism between the World Wars. It presents over 150 images drawn from the French national library's collection, one of the world's most comprehensive photographic holdings.

Artists

Nadar
Man Ray
Brassaï
Gustave Le Gray
Eugène Atget
André Kertész

Venue

Kimbell Art Museum
Fort Worth, United States · October 4, 2026 – January 17, 2027
Opens 4 Oct

Images

An early paper negative photograph of a gnarled oak tree standing among boulders in the Forest of Fontainebleau, the tones warm brown and the foliage softly blurred. — Gustave Le Gray, Oak Tree and Rocks, Forest of Fontainebleau, 1849–52
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York — Purchase, Jennifer and Joseph Duke and Lila Acheson Wallace Gifts, 2000 · Source ↗

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