Masterworks of Modern Photography 1900-1940: The Thomas Walther Collection

Some 230 prints from Thomas Walther’s collection acquired by the Museum of Modern Art, New York (MoMA) in 2001 and 2017 leave New York for the first time to be hosted by the Jeu de Paume gallery in Paris.

Divided into six sections, MoMA’s Photographic Masterworks mixes genres and approaches (architecture and urban views, portraits and nudes, reportage, photomontages, and experiments…) and explores the artistic networks of the interwar period, from the Bauhaus to surrealist Paris.

Thanks to the works of a hundred photographers, from Berenice Abbott to Karl Blossfeldt, Claude Cahun to El Lissitzky, Edward Weston to André Kertész, this fusion of masterpieces and images outlines the history of modernity through photography.