TIME LightBox presents a special preview of the must-see exhibitions on show this fall.
From Maine to Missouri, TIME’s photo editors have collated the 32 U.S. photo shows that matter most this season. New collections from artists such as Anna Yeroshenko and Phil Toledano reflect what’s exciting now, while retrospectives from greats such as Danny Lyon, Slim Aarons and Cecil Beaton will whet your appetite for the timeless.
Contemporary issues are also brought to the fore through exhibitions like Ruddy Roye’s When Living Is a Protest, which examines the ongoing struggle of African Americans living in the U.S. today. And don’t miss the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition celebrating Japanese photography from post-war to today, which include work from influential figures like Shomei Tomatsu and Daido Moriyama.
With this list, there’s enough to keep you occupied until the next crop of exciting exhibitions is unveiled in 2017.
La Calle, Aperture Gallery, New York: Sept. 8 - Oct. 26
(Caption: Comitán, Chiapas, 2007; from La Calle )Alex Webb—Magnum PhotosWhen Living Is A Protest, Steven Kasher Gallery, N.Y.: Sept. 16 - Oct. 29
(Caption: Colours - Marlon Jones from the Immigrant Series, New York, NY, July 4, 2014)
Ruddy RoyeLand Inhabited and Works of Baldwin Lee, The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Ga.: Sept. 23 - Nov. 19
(Caption: Alan and Friend, Vicksburg, MS, 1983)Baldwin LeeLondon's Honorable Scars, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Calif.: Sept. 18 - Jan. 8, 2017
(Caption: Cecil Beaton, St. Paul’s seen through a Victorian Shopfront, circa 1940, Gift of Mrs. Ala Story)Cecil BeatonBorder Cantos, Amon Carter Museum, Texas: Oct. 15 - Dec. 31
(Caption: Cabbage crop and wall, Brownsville, Texas, 2015)
Richard Misrach, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York and Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los AngelesSlim Aarons, Stayley Wise Gallery, N.Y.: Oct. 14 - Nov. 26
(Caption: Poolside Gossip, 1970: Lita Baron, Nelda Linsk, and Helen Dzo Dzo at a desert house in Palm Springs designed by Richard Neutra for Edgar Kaufman)Slim Aarons—Hulton Archive by Getty ImagesNot Forgotten: Chicago Street Memorials, Gage Gallery at Roosevelt University, Ill.: Sept 29 - Dec 3
(Caption: Location: Uptown, 800 block of W. Eastwood Avenue, Name: Infant—no name available, Cause of death: Dropped from eighth floor window shortly after birth)Thomas Ferrella Salt Pans, Howard Greenberg Gallery, NY: Nov 3 - Dec 31
(Caption: Salt Pan #16, Little Rann of Kutch, Gujarat, 2016)Edward Burtynsky, courtesy Howard Greenberg gallery and Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, New York, Nicholas Metiver Gallery, TorontoRobert Frank: Sideways, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine: Sept. 15 - Jan. 29, 2017
(Caption: Wales, 1953, by Robert Frank. On loan from the Penn Family Trust)Robert FrankFaith and Photography: Auguste Salzmann in the Holy Land, The Met, N.Y.: Sept. 12 - Feb. 5, 2017
(Caption: Jerusalem, Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Apse, 1854)Auguste Salzmann
In Conversation: The Photographs of Alice Austen and Christine Oskinski, Alice Austen House, N.Y.: Sept. 18 - Dec. 23
(Caption: Alice Austen, [Self-Portrait with Bicycle], 1897, and Boy on Bicycle, 1983-1984)
Disclaimer: The Alice Austen House's curator Paul Moakley, is Deputy Director of Photography and Visual Enterprise at TIMEAlice Austen, courtesy of Alice Austen House; Christine Osinski, Urban Landscapes, Joseph Bellows Gallery, Calif.: Sept. 10 - Oct. 28
(Caption: George Tice, Railroad Bridge, High Bridge, N.J., 1974)George TiceBelow The Line: Living Poor in America, Bronx Documentary Center, N.Y.: Oct. 1 - Nov. 6
(Caption: Back from prison, Shantytown, New York, 1986)Eugene RichardsMoholy-Nagy: Future Present, The Art Institute of Chicago, Regenstein Hall, Ill.: Oct. 2 - Jan. 3, 2017
(Caption: Behind the Back of the Gods, 1928)László Moholy-Nagy
FotoFocus Biennial 2016, Ohio: Oct. 1 to Oct. 31
(Caption: Coke Bottles, 2015)Roe EthridgeMark Klett: Border Markers, Lisa Sette Gallery, Ariz.: Sept. 10 - Oct. 29
(Caption: Site of a dangerous leap, now overgrown, 2008)Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe, courtesy of Lisa Sette GalleryRocks and Clouds, Yancey Richardson Gallery, N.Y., Sept. 8 - Oct. 22
(Caption: Indian Prayer Rock, Pelham Bay Park, Bronx, 2014)Mitch Epstein, courtesy of Yancey Richardson GalleryEdward S. Curtis Among the Kwakiutl, Fenimore Art Museum, N.Y.: Oct. 1 - Dec. 31
(Caption: Dancing to restore an eclipsed moon – Qagyuhl, 1914)Edward S. Curtis, courtesy Howard Greenberg gallery and Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, New York / Nicholas Metiver Gallery, TorontoThe Sol Mednick Gallery, Pa.: Sept. 30 - Oct. 28
(Caption: Uncle Charlie contemplating in his living room the reality that his son Joe is dying from HIV, sitting by the window holding his newest and latest handgun in his apartment in Bushwick, Brooklyn in 1996)Marc AsninAdam Fuss Daguerreotypes & The Womb of the Pre-Raphaelite Imagination, Hans P. Kraus, Jr., Inc. Fine Photographs, N.Y.: Sept. 28 - Nov. 8
(Caption: Home and the World, 2010, Daguerreotype)Adam Fuss, courtesy Hans P. Kraus, Jr., Fine Photographs, New York and Cheim & Read, New York.
Jackson Fine Art, Ga.: Oct. 7 - Dec. 3
(Caption: Summer, 1984)Duane Michals, courtesy of DC Moore Gallery, New York and Jackson Fine Art, AtlantaHelen Levitt: In the Street, The Museum of Fine Arts, Texas: Sept. 13 - Jan. 2, 2017
(Caption: New York, 1971)Helen Levitt, Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, Ga., gift of Philip PerkisBlue Sky Days, Anastasia Photo, N.Y.: Oct. 4 - Nov. 23
(Caption: Heat Signature, 2014)Tomas van Houtryve, courtesy of Anastasia PhotoHidden Dimension, Rubber Factory, N.Y.: Sept. 24 - Oct. 13
(Caption: Untitled)Anna YeroshenkoTrine Søndergaard, Jackson Fine Art, Ga., Oct. 7 - Dec. 3
(Caption: Guldenakke #6, 2012)Trine Søndergaard, courtesy of Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York, and Jackson Fine Art, AtlantaLive and Life Will Give You Pictures: Masterworks of French Photography, 1890 -1950, The Barnes Foundation, Pa.: Oct. 8 - Jan. 9
(Caption: Jean Cocteau, 1934)Laure Albin-Guillot, collection of Michael Mattis and Judy Hochberg Danny Lyon: Journey, Edwynn Houk Gallery, N.Y.: Sept. 9 - Oct. 15
(Caption: The Haitian Women, Port Au Prince, 1986)Danny Lyon, courtesy of the artist and Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York and ZurichJapanese Photography from Postwar to Now, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Calif.: Oct. 15 - March 12, 2017
(Caption: Tomlinson FC, from the series Lilly, 2005)Lieko Shiga, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, gift of the Kurenboh CollectionSurveillance, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Mo.: Sept. 16 - Jan. 29
(Caption: Staphorst Ammunition Depot, 2011)Mishka HennerSally Mann's Remembered Light, Gagosian Gallery, N.Y.: Sept. 22 - Oct. 29
(Caption: Untitled from Slippers and Flare, 2005)Sally Mann. Courtesy Gagosian GalleryLa Grande Sortie, Lehmann Maupin, N.Y.: Sept. 7 - Oct. 23
(Caption: La Grande Sortie, 2015)Alex Prager, courtesy of the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York and Hong KongThe Thrill of the Chase: The Wagstaff Collection of Photographs at the J.Paul Getty Museum, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Conn.: Sept. 10 - Dec. 11
(Caption: Running Legs, Forty-second Street, New York, 1940-41)Lisette Model, Estate of Lisette Model, courtesy Baudoin Lebon / Keitelman
