Welcome to the Collection
The Museum of Contemporary Photography's permanent collection comprises more than10,000 photographs and photography-related objects. You may view all of the work in our collection on this website.
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Search the museum's entire collection by typing in the artist's name or the artwork's title in the search bar above. You can also click on the Advanced Search option, located just below the search bar, for other terms.
Saving Groups of Artworks
If you would like, you can create a user account to personalize your experience of MoCP's online collection. This allows you to assign artworks to groups as you search or browse. Groups are saved so you can view them later or share them with other users.
To get started, click on the Login link above. In the section marked "Register" enter your email address and the system will email you a password that you can use to login. Once you are logged in you can visit the Manage Favorites page to create a new group, make an existing group public so others can view it, or access groups that others have chosen to share with you.
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If you have questions or are experiencing problems using this website, please contact Kristin Taylor at ktaylor@colum.edu.
Collection Highlights
Recent Acquisition Highlights
View some of the work in the collection acquired by the MoCP in the last year.
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The FarEastFarWest collection
The FarEastFarWest Collection is based in Shanghai and has commission works of art focused on artistic experimentation in China and the rest of Asia since 2009. A majority of the collection to date is housed in the permanent collection at the MoCP on extended loan and is available to students and professionals for workshops, exhibitions and presentations. As FarEastFarWest continues to commission new work the MoCP’s holdings will expand.
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Farm Security Administration collection
The Farm Security Administration (FSA) was established in 1935 as part of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal programs and given the mission to support small farmers and restore land and communities damaged by the Depression. The photographers employed under the FSA, including Charlotte Brooks, Esther Bubley, Marjory Collins, Jack Delano, Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee, Carl Mydans, Gordon Parks, Arthur Rothstein, Ben Shahn, John Vachon, and Marion Post Wolcott, produced images that greatly impacted how both policy-makers and the general public understood the Depression.
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Changing Chicago Project
One of the largest documentary photography projects ever organized in an American city, the Changing Chicago Project commissioned thirty-three photographers to document life throughout Chicago's diverse urban and suburban neighborhoods. The project was launched in 1987 to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the invention of photography and the 50th anniversary of the Farm Security Administration documentary project, which provides its inspirational model. Sponsored by the Focus/Infinity Fund of Chicago, the project was organized with the support of the Museum of Contemporary Photography, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Field Museum of Natural History, the Chicago Historical Society, and the Chicago Office of Fine Arts, Chicago Public Library Cultural Center. In the spring of 1989 the five institutions mounted concurrent exhibitions devoted to the project.
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