The Museum of Modern Art in New York, founded in 1929. In 1940 it became one of the first art museums to create a department of photography, with Beaumont Newhall as its first curator.
Later directors of photography included Edward Steichen, who organized The Family of Man (1955), and John Szarkowski, who organized New Documents (1967) and William Eggleston's color show (1976). See also Metropolitan Museum of Art.
