Francis Frith

♂ *1822-1898 / United Kingdom

Works

Solo exhibitions

Egypt, Sinai and Jerusalem

Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco (US)
4 Nov 2004 – 24 Dec 2004
Voyage en Egypte 1856-1859

A l'Image du Grenier sur l'Eau, Paris (FR)
18 Oct 2002 – 17 Nov 2002

Group

Site Lines: Photographing Historic Spaces

The Minneapolis Institute, Minneapolis (US)
15 Nov 2025 – 12 Apr 2026

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Vom Zauber der frühen Lichtbilder

Das 19. Jahrhundert erfindet die Photographie

BASTIAN, Berlin (DE)
31 Jan 2026 – 28 Feb 2026

with Armand Hippolyte Louis Fizeau, William Henry Fox Talbot, John Beasley Greene, Gustave Le Gray, Eugène Piot
Auction Preview Exhibition

Photographic Center, Seattle (US)
18 Sep 2025 – 12 Oct 2025

with Sam Abell, Thomas Annan, Corey Arnold, Tina Barney, Elinor Carucci, John Chiara, Cody Cobb, Binh Danh, Jim Goldberg, Henry Horenstein, Michael Kenna, Andy Mattern …
Photography as Data

Augmentation, Extraction, Objectification

The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie (US)
9 Apr 2024 – 15 Sep 2024

with Anna Atkins, Francis Bedford, Walead Beshty, Jim Dow, Harold E. Edgerton, Andreas Feininger, Eadweard J. Muybridge, Kenji Nakahashi, Trevor Paglen, Doug Rickard, Hito Steyerl, Stephanie Syjuco
Pathosformel, archeologia del possibile

Cartacea Galleria, Bergamo (IT)
11 May 2024 – 29 Jun 2024

with Giulia Parlato
Travels in Italy

a 19th-Century Journey through Photography

Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa (US)
28 Jan 2023 – 16 Jul 2023

with Fratelli Alinari, Robert MacPherson, Giorgio Sommer
After Nature

Swiss Photography in the 19th Century

PHOTO ELYSEE, Lausanne (CH)
5 Nov 2022 – 29 Jan 2023

with Bisson Freres, Adolphe Braun, Adrien Constant-Delessert, Emanuel Friedrich Dänzer, Antoine Détraz, Rudolph Heinrich Ernst, Johann Adam Gabler, Romedo Guler, Friedrich Gysi, Johann Linck, Paul Vionnet
After Nature

Swiss Photography in the 19th Century

MASI Lugano, Lugano (CH)
3 Apr 2022 – 3 Jul 2022

with Bisson Freres, Adolphe Braun, Emanuel Friedrich Dänzer, Antoine Détraz, Rudolph Heinrich Ernst, Johann Adam Gabler, Romedo Guler, Friedrich Gysi, Johann Linck, Paul Vionnet, Friedrich von Martens
TRAVELING PHOTOGRAPHERS

Galerie Daniel Blau, München (DE)
24 Mar 2022 – 10 May 2022

with Maxime du Camp, Gustave Le Gray
Exquisite Reality:

Photography and the Invention of Nationhood, 1851–1900

Cantor Arts Center, Stanford (US)
29 Mar 2021 – 29 Mar 2022

with Felix Bonfils, Giorgio Sommer
Visions of India

from the colonial to the contemporary

Museum of Australian Photography, Melbourne (AU)
17 Dec 2021 – 20 Mar 2022

with Indu Antony, Felice Beato, Samuel Bourne, Bourne & Shepherd, Michael Buehler-Rose, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Lala Deen Dayal, Gauri Gill, Karen Knorr, Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, Steve McCurry, Pushpamala N. …
After Nature / Nach der Natur

Swiss Photography in the 19th Century

Fotostiftung Schweiz, Winterthur (CH)
23 Oct 2021 – 30 Jan 2022

with Bisson Freres, Adolphe Braun, Emanuel Friedrich Dänzer, Antoine Détraz, Rudolph Heinrich Ernst, Johann Adam Gabler, Romedo Guler, Friedrich Gysi, Johann Linck, Paul Vionnet, Friedrich von Martens
Architectural Photography from the Collection, 1850–2000

Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis (US)
2 Jul 2021 – 2 Jan 2022

with Berenice Abbott, Nathan Baker, Francis Bedford, Maxime du Camp, Julius Shulman
24th Annual Summer Sale 2021

Alan Klotz Gallery, New York (US)
6 Aug 2021 – 6 Sep 2021

with Berenice Abbott, Antonio Beato, Bisson Freres, A. Aubrey Bodine, Louis-Emile Durandelle, Wright Morris, Underwood & Underwood
Oriental Grand Tour

Fotografien aus der Sammlung Ruth und Peter Herzog

Antikenmuseum Basel, Basel (CH)
13 Sep 2020 – 13 Dec 2020

with Felix Bonfils, Maxime du Camp, Luigi Pesce, Pascal Sebah, Louis Vignes
EGYPT AT THE TIME OF FLAUBERT

Documents of Early Travel Photography 1839-1860

Hungarian House Photo, Budapest (HU)
25 Aug 2020 – 4 Oct 2020

with Louis De Clercq, Maxime du Camp, Felix Teynard
The Eye of the Sun: Nineteenth-Century Photographs from the National Gallery of Art

National Gallery of Art, Washington (US)
8 Sep 2019 – 1 Dec 2019

with Robert Adamson, Edouard Baldus, Julia Margaret Cameron, Lewis Carroll, Mary Dillwyn, Roger Fenton, William Henry Fox Talbot, David Octavius Hill, William Edward Kilburn, Gustave Le Gray, Charles Marville, John Moran …
21st Annual Summer Sale

Alan Klotz Gallery, New York (US)
7 Jul 2018 – 17 Aug 2018

with Berenice Abbott, Ansel Adams, Harry Callahan, Robert Capa, Paul Caponigro, Carl Chiarenza, Peter Henry Emerson, Gerard Petrus Fieret, Heinz Hajek-Halke, Andre Kertesz, Erik Kessels, Herb Ritts
Photographie 19. Jahrhundert

BASTIAN, Berlin (DE)
20 Jan 2018 – 14 Apr 2018

with Gustave Le Gray, Auguste Salzmann
New Realities

Photography in the Ninenteenth Century

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (NL)
17 Jun 2017 – 17 Sep 2017

with Thomas Annan, Anna Atkins, Charles Hippolyte Aubry, George Hendrik Breitner, Julia Margaret Cameron, Peter Henry Emerson, Roger Fenton, William Henry Fox Talbot, Nicolaas Henneman, Gustave Le Gray, Robert MacPherson, Charles Nègre
40th Anniversary Exhibition

Alan Klotz Gallery, New York (US)
2 Jun 2017 – 5 Jul 2017

with Eugene Atget, Bill Brandt, Brassai, Adolphe Braun, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Václav Chochola, Alvin Langdon Coburn, David Octavius Hill & Robert Adamson, Robert Demachy, Maxime du Camp, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Frederick Henry Evans …
The View from Here

Landscape Photography from the National Galleries of Scotland

Scot. National Portrait, Edinburgh (GB)
29 Oct 2016 – 30 Apr 2017

with Thomas Joshua Cooper, Fay Godwin, Sze Tsung LEONG, Paul Strand, Felix Thiollier, James Valentine, George Washington Wilson
Vertical No Limit

Mountain Photography

PHOTO ELYSEE, Lausanne (CH)
25 Jan 2017 – 30 Apr 2017

with Adolphe Braun, Balthasar Burkhard, Rene Burri, Nicolas Crispini, Matthieu Gafsou, Iris Hutegger, Jacques Pugin
bilderstrom

Der Rhein und die Fotografie 2016-1853

LVR LandesMuseum, Bonn (DE)
9 Sep 2016 – 22 Jan 2017

with Bernd Arnold, Boris Becker, Wout Berger, Rolf Georg Bitsch, Kurt Boecker, René Böll, Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Chargesheimer, Fritz Christian, Hermann Claasen, Cortis & Sonderegger …
Sight Reading: Photography and the Legible World

George Eastman Museum, Rochester (US)
18 Jun 2016 – 18 Sep 2016

with John Baldessari, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Sophie Calle, William Henry Fox Talbot, John Heartfield, Eadweard J. Muybridge
Time/Frame

New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans (US)
28 Aug 2015 – 22 Feb 2016

with Ilse Bing, Joel Sternfeld, Wolfgang Tillmans
Rotterdam in the Picture

175 Years of Photography in Rotterdam

Netherlands Photo Museum, Rotterdam (NL)
24 Jan 2015 – 24 May 2015

with Gabriele Basilico, Henri Berssenbrugge, Eva Besnyoe, Marrie Bot, Kim Bouvy, George Hendrik Breitner, John Davies, Rince de Jong, Marijn de Jong, Gerco de Ruijter, Bernard F. Eilers, Wally Elenbaas …
New Visions: Art & Invention in the 19th Century

Museum Photographic Arts, San Diego (US)
11 Oct 2014 – 8 Feb 2015

with James Anderson, Edouard Baldus, Felix Bonfils, Samuel Bourne, William Henry Fox Talbot, William Henry Jackson, Eadweard J. Muybridge, Carleton E. Watkins
Where: The Exploration of Photographs and Place, 1843-2014

A Gallery for Fine Photography, New Orleans (US)
23 Oct 2014 – 31 Jan 2015

with Berenice Abbott, Ansel Adams, Diane Arbus, Shimon Attie, Dimitry Baltermants, Ernest James Bellocq, Margaret Bourke-White, Wynn Bullock, Keith Carter, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Edward S. Curtis, Lynn Davis …
Manifesto!

An Alternative History of Photography

Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur (CH)
13 Sep 2014 – 23 Nov 2014

with Shahidul Alam, Nobuyoshi Araki, Keith Arnatt, Mel Bochner, Victor Burgin, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre, Louis Darget, Peter Henry Emerson, William Henry Fox Talbot, Luigi Ghirri, Raoul Hausmann …
Strangers in a Strange Land:

Photographers' First Impressions

The Minneapolis Institute, Minneapolis (US)
20 Sep 2012 – 20 Oct 2013

with Diane Arbus, Philip Jones Griffiths, Dorothea Lange, Boris Mikhailov, Martin Parr, Paul Strand
PICTURING THE SUBLIME

PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE JOSEPH AND CHARLOTTE LICHTENBERG COLLECTI

The Phillips Collection, Washington (US)
11 Oct 2012 – 13 Jan 2013

with Edward Burtynsky, Lynn Davis, Richard Misrach, Carleton E. Watkins
The Colonial Eye / Das Koloniale Auge

Early Portrait Photography in India / Frühe Porträtfotografie in Indien

Museum für Fotografie, Berlin (DE)
20 Jul 2012 – 21 Oct 2012

with A.W.A. Platé & Co, Samuel Bourne, Bourne & Shepherd, John Burke, Shepherd & Robertson, Edward Taurines, W.L.H. Skeen & Co, Albert Thomas Watson Penn, Westfield & Co
Silver, Salt, and Sunlight: Early Photography in Britain and France

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (US)
7 Feb 2012 – 8 Oct 2012

with Edouard Baldus, Julia Margaret Cameron, David Octavius Hill & Robert Adamson, Roger Fenton, William Henry Fox Talbot, Gustave Le Gray, Felix Nadar
Imaging History

FOMU Fotomuseum Antwerp, Antwerp (BE)
17 Feb 2012 – 3 Jun 2012

with Shimon Attie, Felice Beato, Raphael Dallaporta, William Henry Jackson, Sally Mann, Bart Michiels, Charles Nègre, Simon Norfolk, Auguste Salzmann, Bruno Vandermeulen, Danny Veys, Carleton E. Watkins
Lausanne: Images of counterculture

PHOTO ELYSEE, Lausanne (CH)
4 Dec 2011 – 29 Jan 2012

with Emmanuelle Antille, Claude Baechtold, Frédéric Boissonnas, Adolphe Braun, Stefan Burger, Luc Chessex, Jean-Luc Cramatte, Nicolas Crispini, Leo Fabrizio, Matthieu Gafsou, Yann Gross, Christian Lutz …
Industrial Era / Industriezeit

Photographs 1845–2010 / Fotografien 1845-2010

Münchner Stadtmuseum, München (DE)
14 Apr 2011 – 11 Sep 2011

with Georg Böttger, Franz Hanfstaengl, Peter Keetman, Toni Schneiders, Ludwig Windstosser
PHOTOESPAÑA 2010 (PHE10)

XIII International Festival of PHotography and Visual Arts

PHotoEspaña, Madrid (ES)
9 Jun 2010 – 25 Jul 2010

with Ignasi Aballi, Ana Laura Alaez, Manu Arregui, Alvin Baltrop, Daniel Blaufuks, Bleda & Rosa, Tom Burr, Claire Chevrier, David Claerbout, Louis De Clercq, Tacita Dean, Harold E. Edgerton …
Immer wieder Rhein

Englische Fotografen auf Reisen

Landesmuseum Koblenz, Koblenz (DE)
12 May 2009 – 12 Jul 2009

with Cundall & Fleming, Wiliam England, Norwich & District Photographic Society
FOTOGRAFIS - collection reloaded

Bank Austria Kunstforum, Wien (AT)
11 Sep 2008 – 29 Oct 2008

with Robert Adamson, Maxime du Camp, William Henry Fox Talbot, Andreas Gursky, Candida Hoefer, Raoul Hausmann, Man Ray , Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Eadweard J. Muybridge, Albert Renger-Patzsch, Alexander Rodchenko, Edward Steichen …
in qualche parte del mondo

Biennale Internazionale di Fotografia di Brescia 2008

Biennale Int. di Fotografia, Brescia (IT)
12 Jun 2008 – 14 Sep 2008

with Henri Bechard, Gabriele Basilico, Antonio Beato, Felice Beato, Felix Bonfils, Samuel Bourne, Martin Chambi, David Chancellor, Giovanni Chiaramonte, Edward S. Curtis, Jeff Dunas, Franco Fontana …
Private and Public: Class, Personality, Politics, and Landscape in British Photography

Cantor Arts Center, Stanford (US)
3 Jan 2008 – 6 Apr 2008

with Bill Brandt, Julia Margaret Cameron, Peter Henry Emerson
Fragmente zur Melancholie

Bilder aus dem ersten Jahrhundert der Fotografie

Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin (DE)
13 Dec 2006 – 25 Feb 2007

with Robert Adamson, Edouard Baldus, Felice Beato, Paul Marcellin Berthier, Bisson Freres, Adolphe Braun, Giacomo Caneva, Lewis Carroll, Charles Clifford, Louis De Clercq, Alfred Robert de Liesville, Frederick Henry Evans …
Masquerade: Role Playing in Self-Portraiture

Photographs from the Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection

LACMA Museum, Los Angeles (US)
12 Oct 2006 – 7 Jan 2007

with Claude Cahun, Roger Fenton, Pierre Molinier, Yasumasa Morimura, Cindy Sherman, Cindy Sherman
Taking Place: Photographs from the Prentice and Paul Sack Collection

SF Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco (US)
2 Jun 2005 – 6 Sep 2005

with Berenice Abbott, Ansel Adams, Robert Adams, Gioacchino Altobelli, James Anderson, Diane Arbus, Eugene Atget, Edouard Baldus, Lewis Baltz, Hippolyte Bayard, Ilse Bing, Felix Bonfils …
Dall’immaginario all’immagine

FotoGrafia. Festival Internazionale di Roma

Società geografica italiana, Roma (IT)
20 Apr 2005 – 20 May 2005

with Felix Bonfils, Frank Mason Good
New Worlds - The Photography of Exploration

Atlas Gallery, London (GB)
6 Dec 2004 – 31 Jan 2005

with Alfred Gregory, Sir Edmund Hillary, Frank Hurley, Sir Henry Johnston, Frank Kingdon-Ward, J. B. Noel, Herbert G. Ponting
Relating to Photography

Highlights aus privaten Frankfurter Fotorgafie-Sammlungen

Fotografie Forum Frankfurt, Frankfurt (Main) (DE)
13 Aug 2004 – 26 Sep 2004

with Berenice Abbott, Ansel Adams, Akinbode Akinbiyi, Paul Almasy, Pierre Jean Amar, Ellen Auerbach, John Baldessari, Edouard Baldus, Max Baur, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Lucie Beppler, Ruth Bernhard …
Wanderers, Travelers and Adventurers: Images of Exploration from the Permanent Collection

Museum Photographic Arts, San Diego (US)
9 Apr 2004 – 1 Aug 2004

with Samuel Bourne, Josef Koudelka, Henry Bradford Washburn, Carleton E. Watkins
La Collection Ordóñez Falcón - Une passion partagée

Le Botanique, Brussels (BE)
13 Feb 2004 – 18 Apr 2004

with Berenice Abbott, Olympe Aguado, Onesipe Aguado, Albert Sands Southworth & Josiah Johnson Hawes, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Diane Arbus, Antoni Arissa, Eugene Atget, Richard Avedon, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Hans Bellmer, Auguste Belloc …
SEVERAL EXCEPTIONALLY GOOD RECENTLY ACQUIRED PICTURES XVI

Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco (US)
3 Jul 2003 – 23 Aug 2003

with Gilbert & George, Eadweard J. Muybridge, Irving Penn, August Sander

Events

Fine Photographs

Swann Auction Galleries, New York (US)
10 Oct 2026 – 14 Oct 2026

with Ansel Adams, Dawoud Bey, Roy DeCarava, Elliott Erwitt, Robert Frank, Fan Ho, Peter Hujar, Felix Moulin, Vik Muniz, Gordon Parks, Irving Penn, Alexander Rodchenko …
Photography from the 19th - 21st Century

Bassenge Fotoauktionen, Berlin (DE)
20 Nov 2025 – 28 Nov 2025

with Lai Afong, Leopold Ahrendts, Merry Alpern, David Armstrong, Eugene Atget, Edouard Baldus, Felice Beato, Auguste Belloc, Guillaume Berggren, Erwin Blumenfeld, Samuel Bourne, Harry Callahan …
Fine Photographs

Swann Auction Galleries, New York (US)
3 May 2025 – 7 May 2025

with Hans Bellmer, Brassai, Roy DeCarava, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Gordon Parks, Alec Soth
Photography from the 19th - 21st Century

Bassenge Fotoauktionen, Berlin (DE)
25 Nov 2024 – 3 Dec 2024

with Ottomar Anschütz, Ragnar Axelsson, Edouard Baldus, Hans Bellmer, Sibylle Bergemann, Bisson Freres, Karl Blossfeldt, Erwin Blumenfeld, Felix Bonfils, Christian Borchert, John Bulmer, Jewgeni Chaldej …
Photography from the 19th - 21st Century

Photographie des 19. bis 21. Jahrhundert

Bassenge Fotoauktionen, Berlin (DE)
27 Nov 2023 – 5 Dec 2023

with Leopold Ahrendts, James Anderson, Ottomar Anschütz, Nobuyoshi Araki, Eugene Atget, Edouard Baldus, Felice Beato, Auguste Belloc, Sibylle Bergemann, Samuel Bourne, Bourne & Shepherd, Bill Brandt …
Fine Photographs

Swann Auction Galleries, New York (US)
17 Oct 2022 – 19 Oct 2022

with Ansel Adams, Robert Adams, Felice Beato, Julia Margaret Cameron, Edward S. Curtis, Max Dupain, Peter Hujar, Kenro Izu, Arthur Lavine, Helen Levitt, Danny Lyon, Richard Mosse …
Photographie

ADER NORDMANN DOMINIQUE, Paris (FR)
10 Jun 2022 – 13 Jun 2022

with Eugene Atget, Edouard Baldus, Samuel Bourne, Brassai, Adolphe Braun, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Lucien Clergue, Eugene Cuvelier, Antoine d'Agata, Robert Doisneau, Louis-Emile Durandelle, Mitch Epstein …
An American Journey II

The Diann G. and Thomas A. Mann Collection of Photographic Masterworks

Christie's New York, New York (US)
30 Sep 2018 – 4 Oct 2018

with Ansel Adams, Edward S. Curtis, Walker Evans, Heinrich Kuehn, Andre Kertesz, Dorothea Lange, Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, Karl F. Struss, Doris Ulmann, Weegee, Edward Weston …
Photography from the 19th - 21st Century

Photographie des 19. bis 21. Jahrhunderts

Bassenge Fotoauktionen, Berlin (DE)
21 Nov 2016 – 29 Nov 2016

with Paola Agosti, Carl Albiker, Laure Albin-Guillot, Domenico Anderson, Nobuyoshi Araki, Eugene Atget, Bruno Barbey, Max Baur, Felice Beato, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Emil Bieber, Samuel Bourne …
Photography Auction

Bassenge Fotoauktionen, Berlin (DE)
6 Dec 2006

with Ansel Adams, Bourne & Shepherd, Brassai, Josef Breitenbach, William Eggleston, Hans Finsler, Candida Hoefer, Peter Keetman, Germaine Krull, Albert Renger-Patzsch, Alexander Rodchenko, Bert Stern
Orientalist Photographs / Photographies orientalistes

GROS & DELETTREZ, Paris (FR)

with Abdullah Freres, Guillaume Berggren, Felix Bonfils, Giacomo Brogi, Maxime du Camp, Tancrède Dumas, Marcelin Flandrin, Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey, Wilhelm Hammerschmidt, Lehnert & Landrock , Alexandre Leroux, Albert Poche …
Photographs

Sotheby's London, London (GB)

with Julia Margaret Cameron, Dr. Julius Falkenstein, Man Ray , Irving Penn
Orientalist Photographs / Photographies orientalistes

GROS & DELETTREZ, Paris (FR)

with Guillaume Berggren, Muhammad Sadik Bey, Felix Bonfils, Antonio Cavilla, Alphonse Delaunay, Andre Adolphe-Eugene Disderi, Maxime du Camp, Tancrède Dumas, Constant Alexandre Famin, Marcelin Flandrin, John Beasley Greene, Wilhelm Hammerschmidt …