Together We Can

Bob Adelman (1930–2016), People Wall, World's Fair, New York, 1965, gelatin silver print. The Morgan Library & Museum, Purchased as the gift of Nancy and Burton Staniar, 2015.131. © Bob Adelman Estate

Photographer Unidentified, Untitled (women in aprons pose among trees), 1913, commercially processed gelatin silver print; postcard. The Morgan Library & Museum, Gift of Peter J. Cohen

Eugene Omar Goldbeck (1892–1986), Indoctrination Division, Air Training Command, Lackland Air Base, San Antonio, Texas, July 19, 1947, gelatin silver print. The Morgan Library & Museum, Purchased on funds given by members of the Photography Collectors Committee

Susan Meiselas (b. 1948), The dressing room, Fryeburg, Maine, USA, 1975, from the series Carnival Strippers, gelatin silver print. The Morgan Library & Museum, Purchased on the Charina Endowment Fund, 2018.60. © Susan Meiselas/Magnum Photos

Studio Retrato-Escultura Victor, Fotoescultura with eight subjects, ca. 1940s, carved, painted, and assembled wood with hand-colored gelatin silver prints. The Morgan Library & Museum, Purchased as the gift of Richard and Ronay Menschel

Eve Arnold (1912–2012), A training school for Black sit-ins. They are harassed but taught not to hit back when harassed by Whites, Virginia, USA, 1960, from the series Non-Violence, gelatin silver print. The Morgan Library & Museum, Purchased on the Photography Collectors Committee Fund, 2017.286. © Eve Arnold/Magnum Photos

Myers Cope Co. Atlantic City, Photo-multigraph of unidentified girl, ca. 1920s, gelatin silver print with postcard back. The Morgan Library & Museum, Gift of Peter J. Cohen

Powell & Co. Anti-Slavery Constitutional Amendment Picture, 1865, albumen print. The Morgan Library & Museum, Purchased on the Charina Endowment Fund

Danny Lyon (b. 1942), Haitian women praying in the market, HAITI, March 1986. The Morgan Library & Museum, Purchased as the gift of Ronald R. Kass, 2016.157. © Danny Lyon/Magnum Photos

A new exhibition at The Morgan Library & Museum explores photography’s capacity to represent the bonds that unite people. Titled Among Others: Photography and the Group, the show is primarily composed of works pulled from the Morgan’s collection. From posed group portraits and candid street scenes to collages, constructions, and serial imagery, photographers have used many methods to place people in a shared frame of reference.

Susan Meiselas, Eve Arnold, Amy Arbus, Bob Adelman, Danny Lyon, Art Kane and Harry Callahan are among the photographers included in the exhibition. Subjects range from carnival strippers, rock stars, queer activists, abolitionists, and more.

Bringing together more than 60 works from the 1860s to the present, Among Others poses questions about family, diversity, democracy, representation, and visual delight while highlighting the complexity of a type of image that is often taken for granted.

Among Others: Photography and the Group
The Morgan Library & Museum
Through August 19, 2019