Born as a small clothes shop on Ocean Avenue in San Francisco in 1969, 'the Gap' expanded to become the number one retail shop in America with over three thousand outlets worldwide. In 1988, the company launched the latest of its advertising campaigns - 'Individuals of Style' - bold black and white photographs of famous faces wearing Gap items, combined with their own clothes to create a portrait of each individual's personal style.

Face of Fashion is a major exhibition focusing on the portraits of five outstanding fashion photographers from Europe and America: Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott, Corinne Day, Steven Klein, Paolo Roversi and Mario Sorrenti. It is the first exhibition of its kind, celebrating the innovation and diversity of current fashion portraiture.

Never Before Seen Images Tell the Story of Philadelphia and its Industry, Culture, People. From the building of City Hall, to the oldest church in Pennsylvania, to American's most historic penitentiary, the Philadelphia Department of Records holds the country's largest municipal archive of historic photographs, totaling over 2 million images.

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents Re-SITE-ing the West: Contemporary Photographs from the Permanent Collection, an installation on view in conjunction with The Modern West: American Landscapes, 1890-1950.

Paris in Transition: Photographs from the National Gallery of Art presents 61 of the Gallery's photographs revealing the transformation of the French capital city and the art of photography from the mid-19th to early 20th century.

As she runs toward him on a chilly Long Island beach in November of 1933, Martin Munkacsi snaps a photo of a model dressed in a fashionable swimsuit. In that instant he revolutionizes fashion photography forever. Freeing photographers from the confines of their studios and models from their rigid poses, Munkacsi (1896-1963) introduced fresh ideas and a new spontaneity to the world of fashion imagery.

The American silent-film actress Louise Brooks (1906-1985) is one of the great female icons in the history of cinema. Although she starred in over thirty films, Brooks is best known for the role of Lulu in the classic German film Pandora's Box (1929), directed by G.W. Pabst.

Inspired by H.G. Wells' disturbing vision of the future in The Time Machine, where humanity is divided into two classes, the Eloi-naive childlike beings that live in a pantomime paradise-and the Morlocks-trollish creatures whose appearance belies their fierce power and ability to manipulate the Eloi's to their death.

At the beginning of World War II, French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson was captured and held in a German prisoner of war camp for three years before he escaped in 1943. To the outside world, he was presumed dead, and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York prepared to do a memorial exhibition (which ultimately took place in 1947). When Cartier-Bresson emerged, alive, he joined the efforts to assemble the retrospective.

The portrait of Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, Guerrillero Heróico, photographed by Alberto Díaz Gutiérrez, known as "Korda" on March 5, 1960, is considered to be the most reproduced image in the history of photography. It has come to symbolize anti-establishment thought and action. Its political power has maintained its currency from 1968 to the present conflicts in the Middle East.

UCR/California Museum of Photography is preserving approximately three-quarter of a million photographic items within its collection. We see this repository as the most comprehensive large collection of photography within the Western States. On the whole, this massive photographic trust is the product of donations.

In its diversity, UCR/CMP collection is the largest, most comprehensive photographic center in the West. This resource is utilized as four inter-linked sub collections: the Bingham Technology Collection, University Print Collection, the UCR/CMP Study Center Library Collection, and the Digital Virtual Collection.