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In celebration of recent major gifts, this summer The Phillips Collection presents for the first time a major photography exhibition drawn exclusively from the museum’s permanent collection. American Moments: Photographs from The Phillips Collection features more than 130 photographs that evoke a sense of time, place, and experience. More than 30 renowned artists are represented in the exhibition, including Esther Bubley, Bruce Davidson, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Louis Faurer, Joel Meyerowitz, and Arnold Newman. On view June 6 through September 13, 2015, American Moments showcases the strength and variety of the museum’s fast-growing photography collection through a selection of mid-20th-century images of American subjects, many on view at the Phillips for the first time. Recent gifts to the museum, which include Modernist work and street photography, documentary expression, and photojournalism

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