Photography’s First Century: Masterworks from the Bibliothèque nationale de France

The Kimbell’s first-ever exhibition celebrating the art of photography traces the history of the medium’s first century of exploration and discovery, from the rise of daguerreotypes and calotypes in the 1840s to the age of modernism between the World Wars. Drawn from the rich holdings of the Bibliothèque nationale de France—one of the largest and most comprehensive collections of photographs in the world—this survey of more than 170 images includes work by Henri Le Secq, Gustave Le Gray, Félix Tournachon (Nadar), Édouard Baldus, Louis-Émile Durandelle, Edgar Degas, Eugène Atget, Sonia Delauna…