The Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden presents the East Coast debut of a major U.S. survey of the photographs of German artist Wolfgang Tillmans through Aug. 12. Tillmans is acclaimed as a chronicler of his generation and has garnered international recognition as one of the most significant artists to emerge in the 1990s.

The National Gallery of Canada presents Modernist Photographs from the National Gallery of Canada open through 26 August 2007, an exhibition of over 100 photographs from the NGC's collection. These images bear witness to the evolution of photography from a documentary and pictorialist style into an expressive and inventive art form.

Ishiuchi, one of Japan's leading contemporary photographers, will be the focus for an exhibition entitled mother's and will comprise 68 photos relating to her recently deceased mother. Ishiuchi was the artist chosen to represent Japan at the 51st Venice Biennale in 2005.

An incomplete world features paintings and photographs by leading international artists including Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Sarah Morris, Damien Hirst, Andreas Gursky, Ed Ruscha, Lucian Freud, Gerhard Richter and Cindy Sherman.

On August 29, 2005, a monstrous storm came ashore leaving behind enormous destruction beyond belief. The National Museum of Women in the Arts pays tribute to this tragic event to May 28, 2007, through the photographic exhibit, Katrina: Mississippi Women Remember: Photographs by Melody Golding. The 53 photographs offer personal insights into life on the Mississippi Gulf Coast following Hurricane Katrina.

The South Australian Museum will this week open two exhibitions that showcase the best wildlife and nature photography from Australia and around the world. The perennially popular Wildlife Photographer of the Year, a favourite at the museum in recent years, will this year be accompanied by the ANZANG Nature and Landscape Photographer of the Year, a similar exhibition featuring content from our local region.

The story of photography's extraordinary success and popularity in Austria, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Hungary, and Poland during a time of tremendous social and political upheaval, is presented in Foto: Modernity in Central Europe, 1918-1945, the first survey exhibition devoted exclusively to this phenomenon.

The Palm Springs Art Museum is pleased to announce the acquisition of David Hockney's Grand Canyon South Rim with Rail, 1982.

Dateline Israel: New Photography and Video Art, on view at The Jewish Museum from March 10 through August 5, 2007, focuses on photography and video art made after the year 2000. Expressing the diverse outlooks of nearly two dozen artists, these images represent the life and culture of a nation where political realities influence every aspect of creative endeavor. What is revealed is a complicated view of Israel and its people.

The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History has received an important collection of negatives, prints and documents produced by photographer Katherine Joseph during World War II. Joseph's daughter, Suzanne Hertzberg, who discovered the cache of prints, negatives, contact sheets, handwritten notes, clippings and a journal kept by a traveling companion after her mother's death in 1990, donated the archive to the museum.