Museum Collection
The collections at the International Photography Hall of Fame are largely comprised of three components: Photographic Equipment, Photographic Images and a library of monographs and periodicals on photography.
The Photographic Equipment collection encompasses a variety of cameras, darkroom and studio equipment, primarily from the 20th century. Notable items include a wide range of Graflex, Kodak and Polaroid cameras.
There are some notable 19th century photographic toys and viewers in the IPHF equipment collections: Magic Lanterns, a Praxinoscope Theatre, and an Edison Projecting Kinetoscope.
The Photographic Image collection is largely comprised of late 20th century images donated by the photographers who created them. Many of these donors are/were members of various professional photographic organizations such as the American Society of Photographers and Professional Photographers of America.
Noteworthy pieces in this collection include images by the following photographers:
Ansel Adams
Jim Alinder
Ruth Bernhard
Margaret Bourke-White
Ernest Brooks II
Camera Works Prints
Oraien Catledge
Harold Edgerton
Harold Ellickson
Adolph Fassbender
Ernst Haas
George W. Harris
Yousef Karsh
Dorothea Lange
Megalethoscope prints
Edweard Muybridge
Nicholas Orzio
Sebastiao Salgado
William Speer
The IPHF library encompasses a wide variety of photographic memorabilia from historic manuals on processes and techniques to monographs on numerous photographers. There are numerous mid to late 20th century photography periodicals represented in the collection including a full run of “Life Magazine” from its introduction in 1936 until it ceased publication in 1972.
