Henry Wessel

♂ *1942-2018 / United States

Works

Biography

The Click! Photography Festival i

Solo exhibitions

On the Shore

Rena Bransten Projects, San Francisco (US)
8 Jul 2023 – 9 Sep 2023
Más allá del estilo documental

Centro Jose Guerrero, Granada (ES)
3 Mar 2022 – 29 May 2022
Summer Light

Fondation A Stichting, Brussels (BE)
29 Sep 2019 – 15 Dec 2019
A Dark Thread

Maison Européenne Photo, Paris (FR)
5 Jun 2019 – 25 Aug 2019
A Walk

Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow (RU)
19 Apr 2019 – 26 May 2019
A Walk

Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow (RU)
19 Apr 2019 – 26 May 2019
STILL PHOTOGRAPHS

Galerie Thomas Zander, Köln (DE)
26 May 2018 – 25 Aug 2018
Standard & Icons

Amerikahaus, München (DE)
12 May 2016 – 1 Jul 2016
CONTINENTAL DIVIDE

Galerie Thomas Zander, Köln (DE)
7 Nov 2015 – 15 Jan 2016
Incidents

Pace / MacGill Gallery, New York (US)
25 Apr 2013 – 15 Jun 2013
California and the West

gallery focus21, Zürich (CH)
21 Feb 2013 – 3 May 2013
Waikiki

Galerie Thomas Zander, Köln (DE)
2 Jul 2011 – 24 Aug 2011
Vintage Work

Pace / MacGill Gallery, New York (US)
21 Apr 2011 – 8 Jul 2011
Vintage Still Photographs

Rena Bransten Projects, San Francisco (US)
15 Jul 2010 – 21 Aug 2010
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Städtische Galerie, Wolfsburg (DE)
30 Aug 2009 – 17 Jan 2010
Henry Wessel

Galerie Thomas Zander, Köln (DE)
28 Jun 2008 – 6 Sep 2008
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Die Photographische Sammlung, Köln (DE)
2 Feb 2007 – 6 May 2007
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SF Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco (US)
27 Jan 2007 – 22 Apr 2007
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Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica (US)
13 Jan 2007 – 10 Mar 2007
Early photographs

Rena Bransten Projects, San Francisco (US)
18 Jan 2007 – 24 Feb 2007
Las Vegas Real Estate Photographs

Charles Cowles Gallery, New York (US)
11 Jan 2007 – 17 Feb 2007
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Robert Mann Gallery, New York (US)
10 Jan 2007 – 10 Feb 2007
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Rena Bransten Projects, San Francisco (US)
19 Feb 2004 – 27 Mar 2004
Las Vegas

Img.: Las Vegas No. 7, 2002

Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica (US)
15 Nov 2003 – 10 Jan 2004

Group

Serie Limitata

Paesaggi mobili in fotografia

Museo Nazionale dell’Automobile, Torino (IT)
28 Oct 2026 – 4 Apr 2027

with Eugene Atget, William Eggleston, Lee Friedlander, Peter Keetman, Arnold Odermatt, Martin Parr, Stephen Shore
Human Topographies

Art Collection Deutsche Börse

Deutsche Börse, Eschborn (DE)
20 Feb 2026 – 16 Aug 2026

with Verdiana Albano, Nobuyoshi Araki, Sibylle Bergemann, Peter Bialobrzeski, Mohamed Bourouissa, Victor Cartagena, Bruce Davidson, Lucas Foglia, Thomas Hoepker, Evelyn Hofer, Matthias Klose, Werner Mahler …
Le contrat naturel

Galerie Greta Meert, Brussels (BE)
22 Jan 2026 – 28 Feb 2026

with Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz, Katinka Bock, Gerard Byrne, Jef Geys, Mimmo Jodice, Louise Lawler, Mike Mandel, Sophie Nys, Marina Pinsky, Ed Ruscha, Thomas Struth …
Exteriors — Annie Ernaux and Photography

Annie Ernaux, 2022 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

Maison Européenne Photo, Paris (FR)
28 Feb 2024 – 26 May 2024

with Harry Callahan, Claude Dityvon, Dolores Marat, Daido Moriyama, Marie-Paule Nègre, Janine Niepce, Issei Suda, Bernard-Pierre Wolff
SUMMER LOVIN

Robert Mann Gallery, New York (US)
7 Jun 2023 – 18 Aug 2023

with Julie Blackmon, Jeff Brouws, Harry Callahan, Joe Deal, Larry Fink, Richard Finkelstein, Elijah Gowin, Cig Harvey, Chip Hooper, Michael Kenna, O. Winston Link, Mike Mandel …
With Soft Eyes

Center for Photographic Art, Carmel (US)
7 Jan 2023 – 12 Feb 2023

with Austin Leong, Adrian Martinez
Photographic Concepts and Treasures – Works from the Collection Part 2 – Urban Life, Architecture, Industry

Photographische Konzepte und Kostbarkeiten – Sammlungspräsentation Teil 2 Urbanes Leben, Architektur, Industrie

Die Photographische Sammlung, Köln (DE)
2 Sep 2022 – 22 Jan 2023

with Bernd & Hilla Becher, Boris Becker, Joachim Brohm, William Christenberry, Jim Dine, Claudia Faehrenkemper, Lee Friedlander, William Guerrieri, Candida Hoefer, Ruth Hallensleben, Horst Lang, Werner Mantz …
Beyond the Frame

MoCP Contemporary Photo, Chicago (US)
8 Jul 2022 – 30 Oct 2022

with Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz, Clarissa Bonet, Harry Callahan, Peter Cochrane, Joe Deal, Frank Gohlke, Curran Hatleberg , Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Robert Mapplethorpe, Stephen Marc, Abelardo Morell …
FRIENDS + FAMILY

Robert Mann Gallery, New York (US)
9 Jun 2022 – 19 Aug 2022

with Diane Arbus, Ellen Auerbach, Wynn Bullock, Horacio Coppola, Elijah Gowin, Mike Mandel, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Eliot Porter, Ringl + Pit (Grete Stern + Ellen Auerbach), Aaron Siskind, Bert Stern
New Works – 20 Years of Art Collection Deutsche Börse

Deutsche Börse, Eschborn (DE)
22 Nov 2019 – 18 Sep 2020

with Jana Bissdorf, Christian Borchert, Weronika Gesicka, Harry Gruyaert, Pieter Hugo, Hsu-Pin Lee, Susan Meiselas, Gabriele & Helmut Nothhelfer, Anders Petersen, Malte Sänger, Hayahisa Tomiyasu, Ulrich Wuest
Bill Owens, Henry Wessel, David Graham

Etherton Gallery, Tucson (US)
5 Feb 2019 – 20 Apr 2019

with David Graham, Bill Owens
No Time

The McEvoy Foundation for the Arts (MFA), San Francisco (US)
21 Sep 2018 – 19 Jan 2019

with Ansel Adams, Nobuyoshi Araki, Diane Arbus, Paul Caponigro, Keith Carter, Binh Danh, Gohar Dashti, John Divola, Mitch Epstein, Lee Friedlander, Adam Fuss, Charles Gaines …
The Portrait Show

Rena Bransten Projects, San Francisco (US)
23 Jun 2018 – 18 Aug 2018

with Dawoud Bey, Jonathan Calm, Leiko Ikemura, Dorothea Lange, David Linger, Tracey Moffatt, Tracey Snelling, John Waters
A NEW VISION

American Photography after the War Works from an important private collection

Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York (US)
1 Feb 2018 – 17 Mar 2018

with Robert Adams, John Baldessari, Lewis Baltz, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, William Klein, Helen Levitt, Danny Lyon, Irving Penn, Stephen Shore, Aaron Siskind, Garry Winogrand
Autophoto

dedicated to photography’s relationship to the automobile

Fondation Cartier, Paris (FR)
20 Apr 2017 – 24 Sep 2017

with Robert Adams, Eve Arnold, Bernard Asset, Eric Aupol, Theo Baart, Valerie Belin, Martin Bogren, Nicolas Bouvier, David Bradford, Brassai, Alain Bublex, Edward Burtynsky …
Summer show

Pace / MacGill Gallery, New York (US)
3 Aug 2017 – 20 Sep 2017

with Paul Graham, Mark Klett, Jocelyn Lee, Susan Paulsen, Michal Rovner, Viviane Sassen, Kiki Smith, William Wegman
Collected

Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco (US)
2 May 2016 – 28 Feb 2017

with Ansel Adams, Katy Grannan, Richard Misrach, Eadweard J. Muybridge, Carleton E. Watkins
American Classics

Pace London, London (GB)
25 Nov 2016 – 17 Dec 2016

with Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Harry Callahan, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Irving Penn, Garry Winogrand
EVERYTHING HAPPENS SOMEWHERE – Landschaftsstrategien

Galerie Thomas Zander, Köln (DE)
2 Sep 2016 – 5 Nov 2016

with Robert Adams, Diane Arbus, Lewis Baltz, Lothar Baumgarten, Victor Burgin, Peter Downsbrough, Mitch Epstein, Lee Friedlander, Andrea Geyer, Philippe Gronon, Anthony Hernandez, Anthony McCall …
FotoFocus Biennial 2016

Photography, the Undocument

FotoFocus Cincinnati, Cincinnati (US)
1 Oct 2016 – 31 Oct 2016

with Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Slater Bradley, Bill Brandt, Sebastiaan Bremer, Frank Breuer, Lynne Cohen, John Divola, Elena Dorfman, Katrin Elvarsdottir, Patricia Esquivias …
A Look at the Collection: Façades & Surfaces

Blick in die Sammlung: Fassaden & Surfaces

Die Photographische Sammlung, Köln (DE)
15 Jul 2016 – 16 Oct 2016

with Boris Becker, Joachim Brohm, Chargesheimer, William Christenberry, Jim Dine, Walker Evans, Ruth Hallensleben, Peter Keetman, Siegfried Lauterwasser, Werner Mantz, August Sander, Toni Schneiders …
Make Light of It

Pace / MacGill Gallery, New York (US)
7 Jul 2016 – 24 Aug 2016

with Robert Adams, Harold E. Edgerton, William Eggleston, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Peter Hujar, Irving Penn, Kiki Smith, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Robert Whitman
BACK AT THE WATER'S EDGE

Robert Mann Gallery, New York (US)
7 Jul 2016 – 19 Aug 2016

with Julie Blackmon, Jeff Brouws, Harry Callahan, Joe Deal, Richard Finkelstein, Elijah Gowin, Cig Harvey, Michael Kenna, John Mack, Michel Szulc-Krzyzanowski
BACK

Pace / MacGill Gallery, New York (US)
18 Jun 2015 – 28 Aug 2015

with Adou, Richard Benson, Harry Callahan, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Jim Goldberg, Emmet Gowin, Paul Graham, Peter Hujar, Jocelyn Lee, Nicholas Nixon, Tod Papageorge …
Summer Road Trip

Rena Bransten Projects, San Francisco (US)
12 Jul 2014 – 16 Aug 2014

with Doug Hall, Len Jenshel, Tracey Moffatt, Tracey Snelling
Only the Good Ones

The Snapshot Aesthetic Revisited

Galerie Rudolfinum, Praha (CZ)
23 Jan 2014 – 6 Apr 2014

with Nobuyoshi Araki, Tim Barber, Richard Billingham, Mark Borthwick, Mike Brodie, William Christenberry, Larry Clark, Barbara Crane, Corinne Day, William Eggleston, JH Engstroem, Walker Evans …
A Tad Bit Strange and Somewhat Surreal

Photographs from the '60s and '70s

L. Parker Stephenson, New York (US)
6 Jun 2012 – 27 Jul 2012

with Bill Burke, Mark Cohen, Larry Fink, George W. Gardner, Charles Harbutt, Kenneth Josephson, Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen, George Krause, Leon Levinstein, Nathan Lyons, Bill Owens
Photography Rotation 8

MoMA Museum Modern Art, New York (US)
13 May 2011 – 12 Mar 2012

with Berenice Abbott, Robert Adams, Ansel Adams, Robert Adamson, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Lola Alvarez Bravo, Emmy Andriesse, Diane Arbus, Eugene Atget, Richard Avedon, Dimitry Baltermants, Lewis Baltz …
Seismic Shift

Lewis Baltz, Joe Deal and California Landscape Photography, 1944-1984

UCR ARTS , Riverside (US)
1 Oct 2011 – 31 Dec 2011

with Ansel Adams, Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz, Wynn Bullock, Joe Deal, Edward Weston, Brett Weston, Minor White
HERE

34 photographers and over 700 images

Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco (US)
23 May 2011 – 16 Dec 2011

with Diane Arbus, Lewis Baltz, Ruth Bernhard, John Chiara, Kota Ezawa, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Jim Goldberg, Paul Graham, Katy Grannan, John Gutmann, Chauncey Hare …
New Topographics

Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape

Netherlands Photo Museum, Rotterdam (NL)
25 Jun 2011 – 11 Sep 2011

with Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Joe Deal, Frank Gohlke, Nicholas Nixon, John Schott, Stephen Shore
At The Water's Edge

Robert Mann Gallery, New York (US)
7 Jul 2011 – 26 Aug 2011

with Julie Blackmon, Jeff Brouws, Stephen Hughes, Laurent Millet, Fred Stein, Michel Szulc-Krzyzanowski
Hyper Real - Kunst und Amerika um 1970

Ludwig Forum, Aachen (DE)
13 Mar 2011 – 29 Jun 2011

with Lewis Baltz, William Eggleston, Mitch Epstein, Lee Friedlander, Saul Leiter, Joel Meyerowitz, Stephen Shore, Larry Sultan, Garry Winogrand
New Topographies

Preus Museum, Horten (NO)
10 Apr 2011 – 5 Jun 2011

with Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Joe Deal, Frank Gohlke, Nicholas Nixon, John Schott, Stephen Shore
New Topographics

Die Photographische Sammlung, Köln (DE)
21 Jan 2011 – 27 Mar 2011

with Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Joe Deal, Frank Gohlke, Nicholas Nixon, John Schott, Stephen Shore
New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-altered Landscape

LANDESGALERIE LINZ, Linz (AT)
11 Nov 2010 – 9 Jan 2011

with Robert Adams, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Joachim Brohm, Joe Deal, Frank Gohlke, Nicholas Nixon, Mario Pfeifer, Andrew Phelps, John Schott, Stephen Shore
New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape

SF Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco (US)
17 Jul 2010 – 3 Oct 2010

with Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Joe Deal, Frank Gohlke, Nicholas Nixon, John Schott, Stephen Shore
Le paradis, ou presque : Los Angeles [1865-2008]

Musée Nicéphore, Chalon-sur-Saone (FR)
24 Oct 2009 – 31 Jan 2010

with Thomas Michael Alleman, Richard Avedon, John Baldessari, Lewis Baltz, Jo Ann Callis, Paul Caponigro, Herb Carleton, Gusmano Cesaretti, William Claxton, Imogen Cunningham, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, John Divola …
New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape

A restaging of the landmark 1975 exhibition

LACMA Museum, Los Angeles (US)
25 Oct 2009 – 3 Jan 2010

with Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Joe Deal, Frank Gohlke, Nicholas Nixon, John Schott, Stephen Shore
THIS SIDE OF PARADISE : LOS ANGELES (1865-2008)

Le paradis, ou presque - Los Angeles (1865-2008)

PHOTO ELYSEE, Lausanne (CH)
31 Jan 2009 – 19 Apr 2009

with Harry Adams, Ansel Adams, Laura Aguilar, Clem Albers, Thomas Michael Alleman, Richard Avedon, James Baker, John Baldessari, Lewis Baltz, Adam Bartos, Haven G. Bishop, Kaucyila Brooke …
Re-SITE-ing the West

Contemporary Photographs from the Permanent Collection

LACMA Museum, Los Angeles (US)
4 Mar 2007 – 3 Jun 2007

with Lewis Baltz, Mark Ruwedel
American Roads

Photographs Do Not Bend, Dallas (US)
30 Mar 2007 – 5 May 2007

with Barbara Crane, Robbert Flick, Frank Gohlke, Mark Klett, Tod Papageorge, Joel Sternfeld
Amerikanische Street Photography

Städtische Galerie, Wolfsburg (DE)
16 Apr 2005 – 2 Oct 2005

with Mitch Epstein, Lee Friedlander, Joel Meyerowitz, Garry Winogrand
Women

Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica (US)
9 Jul 2005 – 20 Aug 2005

with Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Lisette Model
Garry Winogrand and the American Street Photographers

foam Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam (NL)
14 Jan 2005 – 30 Mar 2005

with Mitch Epstein, Lee Friedlander, Joel Meyerowitz, Garry Winogrand
Landscape

Rena Bransten Projects, San Francisco (US)
17 Jun 2004 – 17 Jul 2004

with Uta Barth, Rebeca Bollinger, Doug Hall, Anders Krisar, Vik Muniz, Paul Seawright
The Gray Area - Uncertain Images: Bay Area Photography 1970s to now

Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco (US)
3 Dec 2003 – 14 Feb 2004

with Doug Hall, Todd Hido, Eric Kroll, Mike Mandel, Richard Misrach, Bill Owens, Will Rogan, Larry Sultan

Events

Photography | The Margulies Collection

Lempertz, Köln (DE)
29 Nov 2025 – 2 Dec 2025

with Robert Adams, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Peter Bialobrzeski, Larry Clark, Anton Corbijn, Ted Croner, William Eggleston, Olafur Eliasson, Walker Evans, F. C. Gundlach, Axel Huette, Ruth Hallensleben …
ART COLOGNE 2022

Art Cologne, Köln (DE)
18 Nov 2022 – 20 Nov 2022

with Erkan Oezgen, Heba Y. Amin, William Anastasi, Alvin Baltrop, Banz & Bowinkel, Rosa Barba, Matthew Barney, Lothar Baumgarten, Christiane Baumgartner, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Laurenz Berges, Gregory Bojorquez …
Photography

Lempertz, Köln (DE)
23 Nov 2018 – 29 Nov 2018

with Lewis Baltz, Hugo Brehme, Hugo Erfurth, Robert Frank, Hein Gorny, Thomas Hoepker, Heinrich Kuehn, Germaine Krull, Sebastiao Salgado, August Sander, Otto Schoefft, Serge Vandercam
Paris Photo 2018

Paris Photo , Paris (FR)
8 Nov 2018 – 11 Nov 2018

with Jun Abe, Adou, Nobuyoshi Araki, Mustapha Azeroual, Ilit Azoulay, Jared Bark, Mary Ellen Bartley, Peter Beard, Renate Bertlmann, Viktoria Binschtok, LIU Bolin, Anais Boudot …
B10 - La decima Biennale dell'immagine

Borderlines Città divise/Città plurali

Biennale dell'immagine, Chiasso (CH)
7 Oct 2017 – 10 Dec 2017

with Robert Adams, Georg Aerni, Lewis Baltz, Richard Benson, Giacomo Bianchetti, Margaret Bourke-White, Filippo Brancoli Pantera, Fabrizio Cicconi, Angelica Dass, Paola Di Bello, William Eggleston, Ramak Fazel …
Literaturabend zur Ausstellung Henry Wessel

Die Photographische Sammlung, Köln (DE)
22 Mar 2007
Five Books

Museum Store of ICP International Center, New York (US)
5 May 2006
Photographs Auction Shaping Visions

Leitz Photographica Auction, Wien (AT)

with Berenice Abbott, John Bulmer, Rene Burri, Roe Ethridge, Walker Evans, Luigi Ghirri, Mario Giacomelli, Nan Goldin, Horst P. Horst, Rudolf Koppitz, Sally Mann, Richard Misrach …
Photographs from the Martin Z. Margulies Foundation

PHILLIPS New York, New York (US)

with Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Andreas Feininger, Lee Friedlander, Frank Gohlke, Ray K. Metzker