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Previous Exhibitions: (date and title listings only)

Photography helps us to ponder history, see other cultures, and find refuge in beauty. It is always working; aiding art and science, confirming facts, identifying people and places, or encouraging our moral imaginations. Its directness, as well as its rich nuances expand our knowledge of the world, both past and present. Instead of a little more understanding and care leaking out from the world, at its best, photography stems the flow of ignorance, of lost consciences, or forgotten beauty.
-Carol McCusker, Curator

PREVIOUS EXHIBITIONS
Listed in ascending chronological order

The Photographer's Eye: A Way of Seeing: January 19 - April 20, 2008

Measured Time: MoPA at 25: January 12 - April 20, 2008

Picturing Eden , September 15, 2007 - January 13, 2008

Public Privacy: Wendy Richmond's Surreptitious Cellphone, September 8, 2007 - January 6, 2008

New Light: Selections from MoPA's Eduction Programs, September 8, 2007 - January 6, 2008

Ansel Adams, May 19 - September 9, 2007

Didier Ben Loulou, May 19 - August 31, 2007

Harry Callahan: The Photographer at Work, May 19 – September 9, 2007

Arthur Lavine: Peripatetic Pleasures and Meditations, May 12 – September 2, 2007

Tell Me a Story: Narrative Photography Now, January 20 – May 13, 2007

Rebels & Revelers: Experimental Decades, 1970s–1980s - Gifts from the Joyce & Ted Strauss Collection, January 13 – May 6, 2007

Woman: A Celebration, January 13 – May 6, 2007

Mexico: The Revolution and Beyond—Photographs by Agustín Victor Casasola, 1900 – 1940, November 12, 2006 – January 7, 2007

The Roads Most Traveled: Photographs of Migration by Don Bartletti, October 1, 2006 - January 14, 2007

Close-Ups: San Diego Neighborhoods, September 24 - November 5, 2006

Out of Darkness, Ascending: James Fee, Recent Photographs, September 29 - October 30, 2006

Breaking the Frame: Pioneering Women in Photojournalism, May 7 - September 24, 2006

Today's Pioneers: Women Photojournalists in Iraq and Afghanistan - Andrea Bruce and Stephanie Sinclair, May 14 - September 17, 2006

Shooting in 35: The First 35mm Photographs, May 14 - September 17, 2006

John Gutmann's Century, January 15 - May 7, 2006

Mike Smith: You're Not from Around Here, January 15 - May 7, 2006

Eye to Eye: Photographs by Graham Nash, January 8 - April 30, 2006

Lalla Essaydi: Converging Territories, September 25, 2005 - January 7, 2006

Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self, October 1 - December 31, 2005

Steve McCurry: Photographs of Asia, May 29 - September 25, 2005

Graham Flint: American Landscapes at 1000 Megapixels, June 12 - September 18, 2005

Snapshots: From the Box Brownie to the Camera Phone, June 12 - September 18, 2005

Manufactured Landscapes: The Photographs of Edward Burtynsky, March 20 - June 5, 2005

Andrea Modica: Treadwell/Fountain, March 13- May 22, 2005

Jeff Bridges: Pictures, November 18, 2004 - March 13, 2005

Andreas Feininger: Man on the Street, November 18, 2004 - March 6, 2005

Mariana Yampolsky's Mexico, November 18, 2004 - March 6, 2005

Circle of Memory, August 8 - November 7, 2004

Recent Gifts: For Eye and Mind, August 20 - November 14, 2004

David Fokos: Borrowed Time, August 20 - November 14, 2004

Robert ParkeHarrison: The Architect's Brother, January 11 - April 4, 2004

Stephen Berkman: Cold Mountain and Other Journeys, January 11 - April 4, 2004

Paper Dreams: The Art of Hollywood Promotion, March 21 - May 23, 2004

Paris: A Century in the City of Light, January 18 - May 23, 2004

The Beauty of the Albumen Print, January 18 - May 23, 2004

The Discerning Eye: Southern California Collects, September 7, 2003 - January 4, 2004

American Noir: The Photographs of James Fee, September 24 – October 29, 2003

In Praise of Plenty: Gifts from the Collectors Group, September 7 - December 14, 2003

Speak Truth to Power: Human Rights Defenders Who Are Changing Our World, June 22 - August 31, 2003

Frida Kahlo: Portraits of an Icon, June 15 - August 31, 2003

Visions of Peru: The Photographs of Martin Chambi, Mario Algaze & Javier Silva Meinel, June 22 - August 24, 2003

First Photographs: William Henry Fox Talbot and the Birth of Photography,
March 30 – June 15, 2003

In Talbot's Time: The First Twenty-Five Years of Photography, March 30 – June 8, 2003

Secret Victorians: Contemporary Images in Early Processes, March 30 - June 15, 2003

Alexander Rodchenko: Modern Photography, Photomontage and Film,
January 12– March 23, 2003

Edward Curtis: The Shadow Catcher, January 19 – March 23, 2003

James Nachtwey: Testimony, October 27, 2002 – January 5, 2003

Tracings of Light: Sir John Herschel and the Camera Lucida, October 27 - January 5, 2003

Bohnchang Koo: Fragile Tremors from the White and Pencil of Nature Series, October 20, 2002 – January 12, 2003

Louis Faurer: Retrospective (8/11 - 10/20/02)

Nagasaki Journey: The Photographs of Yosuke Yamahata, August 10, 1945 (9/1 - 10/20/02)

Without Borders: Transcending Terror (9/1 - 10/20/02)

Terra phantasma: the photographs of ray carofano (6/9 – 8/18/02)

Traveling Light: Satisfying our Wanderlust, Favorites from the Back Room (6/9 – 8/4/02)

The Photography of Alfred Stieglitz: Georgia O’Keeffe’s Enduring Legacy (6/9 – 8/25/02)

Photographers, Writers, and the American Scene: Visions of Passage (3/24 – 6/2/02)

Official Ansel Adams and Manuel Bravo: 100th Birthday Celebration (1/4 – 3/17/02)

The AIDS Project: Art Meyers (1/13 – 3/17/02)

Double Vision: The Strauss Collection (1/3 – 3/1/02)

Bill Brandt: A Retrospective (10/28/01 – 1/6/02

Photographs from Andrea Modica: Treadwell/Fountain

Treadwell, 1998


Treadwell, 1990


Treadwell, 1997


Fountain, 2004

Fountain, 2004

Fountain, 2004

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