Eadweard Muybridge. Annie G, Cantering, Saddled. December 1887.sheet: 19 x 24 in., image: 7 1/2 x 16 1/8 in.

Poster for the Cinématographe, with the Lumière Brothers film L’Arroseur arrosé (Waterer and Watered ) on screen. 1895.

Walker Evans. Roadside Store between Tuscaloosa and Greensboro, Alabama. 1936.

Unidentified Photographer. Camera Obscura.

William Henry Fox Talbot. Mimosoidea Suchas, Acacia. c. 1839.

Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre. Le Boulevard du Temple. 1839.

Richard Beard. Maria Edgeworth. 1841.2 1/8 x 1 3/4 in.

William Henry Fox Talbot. The Open Door. 1843.

Julia Margaret Cameron. Portrait of Thomas Carlyle. 1863.10 x 8 in.

Timothy O’Sullivan. Harvest of Death, Gettysburg, Pa. 1863.

Alfred Stieglitz. The Steerage. 1907.13 3/16 x 10 3/8 in.

Sebastião Salgado. Four Figures in the Desert, Korem, Ethiopia. 1984.16 x 20 in.

An-My Lê. Small Wars (ambush I). 1999–2002.26 x 37 1/2 in.

Henri Cartier-Bresson. Athens. 1953.

Ansel Adams. Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico. 1941.18 1/2 x 23 in.

Jerry N. Uelsmann. Untitled.

Jerry N. Uelsmann. Untitled.

Jerry N. Uelsmann. Untitled.

Jerry N. Uelsmann. Untitled (first version).

Jerry N. Uelsmann. Untitled (second version).

Joel Meyerowitz. Porch, Provincetown. 1977.

Annie Leibovitz. Karen Finley at her home in Nyack, New York. 1992.39 1/16 x 49 1/8 in.

Edgar Degas. After the Bath, Woman Drying Her Hair. 1896.6 1/2 x 4 11/16 in.

Andreas Gursky. 99 Cent. 1999.81 1/2 x 132 5/8 in.

Fernand Léger. Ballet Mécanique. 1924.

D. W. Griffith. battle scene from The Birth of a Nation. 1915.

Sergei Eisenstein. Still from Battleship Potemkin. 1925.

Sergei Eisenstein. Still from Battleship Potemkin. 1925.

Sergei Eisenstein. Still from Battleship Potemkin. 1925.

Sergei Eisenstein. Still from Battleship Potemkin. 1925.

Janet Leigh. Scene still from Psycho. Directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock. 1960.

Charlie Chaplin in The Gold Rush. 1925.

Orson Welles as Kane campaigning for governor in Citizen Kane. 1941.

William Cameron Menzies. Storyboard for the burning-of-Atlanta scene from Gone with the Wind. 1939.

The burning-of-Atlanta scene from Gone with the Wind. 1939.

Nam June Paik. Video Flag. 1985–96.94 3/8 x 139 3/4 x 47 3/4 in.

Nam June Paik. TV Bra for Living Sculpture. 1969.

Trisha Brown. Walking on the Wall. March 30, 1971.

Robert Rauschenberg. Open Score. October 14 and 22, 1966.

William Wegman. Still from Rage and Depression, Reel 3. 1972–73.

Peter Fischli and David Weiss. Still from Der Lauf der Dinge (The Way Things Go). 1987.

Peter Fischli and David Weiss. Still from Der Lauf der Dinge (The Way Things Go). 1987.

Bill Viola. sketch for The Greeting Set. 1995.

Jacopo da Pontormo. The Visitation. 1528.79 1/2 x 61 3/8 in.

Bill Viola. The Greeting. 1995.

Shirin Neshat. Still from Passage. 2001.dimensions vary with installation.

Shirin Neshat. Still from Passage. 2001.dimensions vary with installation.

Shirin Neshat. Still from Passage. 2001.dimensions vary with installation.

John F. Simon, Jr.. Unfolding Object. 2002.dimensions variable.

Mark Napier. net.flag. 2002.dimensions variable.

Sakino Hokusai. Shunshuu Ejiri, from the series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji. 1831.

30 1/2 x 46 in.

Jeff Wall. A Sudden Gust of Wind (After Hokusai). 1993.90 3/16 x 148 7/16 in.