Paul Outerbridge

♂ *1896-1958 / United States

Works

Solo exhibitions

Photographs

Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles (US)
25 Sep 2025 – 8 Nov 2025
Paul Outerbridge

Bruce Silverstein, New York (US)
30 Jun 2016 – 17 Sep 2016
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The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (US)
31 Mar 2009 – 9 Aug 2009
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Peter Hay Halpert Fine , New York (US)
5 Jul 2007 – 8 Sep 2007

Group

Remember Me

photography bicentenary, around 700 works by more than 70 artists

Bourse de Commerce - Pinault, Paris (FR)
7 Oct 2026 – 18 Jan 2027

with Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Eugene Atget, Richard Avedon, Cecil Beaton, Erwin Blumenfeld, Constantin Brancusi, Steffi Brandl, Pola Brändle, Claude Cahun, Julia Margaret Cameron, George Frederic Cannons , Robert Capa …
A New Look at Photo History

Treasures from the Solander Collection

Photographic Center, Seattle (US)
9 Jan 2025 – 20 Mar 2025

with Ansel Adams, Emilio Amero, Diane Arbus, Robert Frank, Man Ray , Malick Sidibe, Annegret Soltau, Katsumi Watanabe, Edward Weston, Francesca Woodman
The Real Thing

Unpackaging Product Photography

Metropolitan Museum 5th Ave, New York (US)
11 Mar 2024 – 4 Aug 2024

with Murray Duitz, Robert Mapplethorpe, August Sander, Piet Zwart
An Outsider’s Eye

Discoveries from Bruce Silverstein Gallery, Curated by Frank Maresca

Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York (US)
26 Apr 2024 – 18 May 2024

with Karl Blossfeldt, Erwin Blumenfeld, Harry Callahan, Bill Cunningham, Frantisek Drtikol, Gyoergy Kepes, Andre Kertesz, Dorothea Lange, Man Ray , Lisette Model, Sigmar Polke, Larry Silver …
Modern Objects

Huxley-Parlour, London (GB)
28 Apr 2023 – 27 May 2023

with Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Margaret Bourke-White, Imogen Cunningham, Jaromir Funke, Andre Kertesz, Francois Kollar, Dora Maar, Tina Modotti, Barbara Morgan, Jaroslav Roessler, Edward Steichen, Edward Weston
Alter Egos

Projected Selves

Metropolitan Museum 5th Ave, New York (US)
22 Nov 2021 – 1 May 2022

with Doug Aitken, HAI Bo, Ellen Carey, Justine Cooper, Valie Export, WENG Fen, Samuel Fosso, Tom Friedman, Gilbert & George, Debbie Grossman, Richard Hamilton, HONG Hao …
Tell Me What You See. Skrein Photo Collection

Museum der Moderne , Salzburg (AT)
12 Jun 2021 – 17 Oct 2021

with Berenice Abbott, Eddie Adams, Ansel Adams, Eugene Atget, Ellen Auerbach, Edouard Baldus, Josef Bartuska, Felice Beato, Gianni Berengo Gardin, Ladislav E. Berka, Aenne Biermann, Ilse Bing …
The Beauty of Lines

Masterpieces from the Gilman and González-Falla collection

Fundacion Foto Colectania, Barcelona (ES)
20 Jun 2019 – 29 Sep 2019

with Berenice Abbott, Ansel Adams, Robert Adams, Laurent Elie Badessi, Lewis Baltz, Ilse Bing, Julie Blackmon, Karl Blossfeldt, Margaret Bourke-White, Bill Brandt, Wynn Bullock, Edward Burtynsky …
From Riches to Rags

American Photography in the Depression

Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland (US)
13 Aug 2017 – 31 Dec 2017

with Arthur Ann Segan, Imogen Cunningham, Disfarmer (Mike Meyer), Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Edward Steichen, Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, James Van Der Zee, Edward Weston
Lives & Still Lives

Leslie Gill, Frances McLaughlin-Gill, and Their Circle

Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York (US)
25 May 2017 – 7 Jul 2017

with Erwin Blumenfeld, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Leslie Gill, Man Ray , Frances McLaughlin-Gill, Norman Parkinson, Gordon Parks, Irving Penn
The Pure Products of America Go Crazy

CCP Center Creative Photo, Tucson (US)
20 Jun 2015 – 13 Sep 2015

with Ansel Adams, Lucas Blalock, Harry Callahan, Walker Evans, Lee Friedlander, Jan Groover, Owen Kydd, John Lehr, Charles Jr. Sheeler, Frederick Sommer
Past Picture

Photography and the Chemistry of Intention

MOCA Contemporary Art, Toronto (CA)
2 May 2015 – 31 May 2015

with Anna Atkins, Anton Bruehl, William Henry Fox Talbot, Man Ray , Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Charles Nègre, Albert Renger-Patzsch, Franz Roh, Gary Schneider, Paul Strand, Hiroshi Sugimoto
The Modern Eye: Photographs 1917-1939

Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York (US)
9 Apr 2015 – 16 May 2015

with Berenice Abbott, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Eugene Atget, Ilse Bing, Erwin Blumenfeld, Bill Brandt, Brassai, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Imogen Cunningham, Frantisek Drtikol, Walker Evans, John Hagemeyer …
A World of Its Own: Photographic Practices in the Studio

MoMA Museum Modern Art, New York (US)
8 Feb 2014 – 1 Dec 2014

with Berenice Abbott, Richard Avedon, Uta Barth, Karl Blossfeldt, Geta Bratescu, Constantin Brancusi, Francis Bruguire, Harry Callahan, Thomas Demand, Harold E. Edgerton, Fischli & Weiss, Robert Frank …
Photo A-Z

photographers we have featured, and those still on our wish list

NRW-Forum, Düsseldorf (DE)
28 Sep 2013 – 5 Jan 2014

with Nobuyoshi Araki, Guy Bourdin, Anton Corbijn, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, William Eggleston, Fischli & Weiss, Nan Goldin, Candida Hoefer, Charles Jones, Nick Knight, David LaChapelle, Robert Mapplethorpe …
Collection on Display IV

The Magic of the Object

Museum der Moderne , Salzburg (AT)
1 Jun 2013 – 15 Sep 2013

with Herbert Bayer, Peter Dressler, Jaromir Funke, Seiichi Furuya, Robert F. Hammerstiel, Franz Kapfer, Hans Kupelwieser, Franz Linschinger, Heinz Loew, Mahony, Elfriede Mejchar, David Muth …
Selections from Collections

Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York (US)
29 Apr 2011 – 1 Aug 2011

with Eugene Atget, William Eggleston, Walker Evans, Andreas Feininger, Robert Frank, Jaromir Funke, Josef Koudelka, Helen Levitt, Man Ray , Ray K. Metzker, Lisette Model, Irving Penn …
Modernist Photography 1910–1950

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (US)
20 Nov 2010 – 3 Jul 2011

with Ansel Adams, Walker Evans, Wright Morris, Dorothy Norman, Charles Jr. Sheeler, Arthur Siegel, Edward Steichen, Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, Edward Weston
Aspects of Color

A history of Color in Photography from Pictorialism to Contemporary

Kicken Berlin, Berlin (DE)
30 Apr 2011 – 4 Jun 2011

with Erwin Blumenfeld, Harry Callahan, William Eggleston, Fred Herzog, Heinrich Kuehn, Rudolf Koppitz, Saul Leiter, Guenter Roessler, Stephen Shore
Food for Thought

Robert Mann Gallery, New York (US)
31 Mar 2011 – 14 May 2011

with Ansel Adams, Julie Blackmon, Robert Doisneau, Irving Penn, Fred Stein, Paulette Tavormina
TruthBeauty: Pictorialism and the Photograph as Art, 1845–1945

The Phillips Collection, Washington (US)
9 Oct 2010 – 9 Jan 2011

with Paul L. Anderson, Margaret Bourke-White, Julia Margaret Cameron, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Heinrich Kuehn, Dorothea Lange, Henry Peach Robinson, Paul Strand, Clarence H. White
NUDES - Positions of Nude Art Photography

NUDES - Positionen der Aktphotographie

CAMERA WORK, Berlin (DE)
3 Jul 2010 – 28 Aug 2010

with Lola Alvarez Bravo, Guido Argentini, Richard Avedon, Lillian Bassman, Werner Bischof, Erwin Blumenfeld, Bill Brandt, Josef Breitenbach, Harry Callahan, Lucien Clergue, Frantisek Drtikol, Ralph Gibson …
La photographie n’est pas l’art,

collection Sylvio Perlstein

MAMCS Strasbourg, Strasbourg (FR)
5 Feb 2010 – 24 Apr 2010

with James Abbe, Berenice Abbott, Adel Abdessemed, Vito Acconci, Eugene Atget, Robert Barry, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Bill Beckley, Hannes Beckmann, Vanessa Beecroft, Hans Bellmer, Ilse Bing …
Film und Foto

Eine Hommage

Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart (DE)
4 Jul 2009 – 1 Nov 2009

with Berenice Abbott, Eugene Atget, Willi Baumeister, Marcel Duchamp, Hannah Hoech, Man Ray , Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
STILL SEEN

Robert Klein Gallery, Boston (US)
17 Sep 2009 – 24 Oct 2009

with Marie Cosindas, John Dugdale, Andre Kertesz, Laura Letinsky, Chema Madoz, Douglas W. Mellor, Tomio Seike, Maurice Tabard, Edward Weston
Photo20esimo

maestri della fotografia del XX secolo

Museo d'Arte, Lugano (CH)
5 Oct 2008 – 11 Jan 2009

with Berenice Abbott, Paola Agosti, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Arthur Ann Segan, Nobuyoshi Araki, Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, David Bailey, Gian Paolo Barbieri, Olivo Barbieri, Gabriele Basilico, Irene Bayer …
FASHION - 9 decades of fashion photography

CAMERA WORK, Berlin (DE)
20 Sep 2008 – 15 Nov 2008

with Diane Arbus, Allen Arbus, David Bailey, Joachim Baldauf, Lillian Bassman, Peter Beard, Sibylle Bergemann, Tina Berning, Erwin Blumenfeld, Brassai, Michel Comte, Anton Corbijn …
busy going crazy - the Sylvio Perlstein collection

art & photography from Dada to the present day

La Maison Rouge, Paris (FR)
29 Oct 2006 – 14 Jan 2007

with Berenice Abbott, Vito Acconci, Laure Albin-Guillot, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Eugene Atget, Robert Barry, Cecil Beaton, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Vanessa Beecroft, Hans Bellmer, Ilse Bing, Erwin Blumenfeld …
Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self

San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego (US)
1 Oct 2005 – 31 Dec 2005

with Andrea Robbins & Max Becher, Eleanor Antin, Richard Avedon, Thomas Eakins, Lee Friedlander, Barbara Kruger, Nickolas Muray, Andres Serrano, Aaron Siskind, Edward Steichen, Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie, Andy Warhol …
Special Collections: Early twentieth Century Photographs

Weston Gallery, Carmel (US)
8 Oct 2005 – 3 Dec 2005

with Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, Andre Kertesz, Edward Steichen, Paul Strand, Josef Sudek
Neues Sehen in Berlin. Fotografie der Zwanziger Jahre

Kunstbibliothek , Berlin (DE)
16 Sep 2005 – 20 Nov 2005

with Aenne Biermann, Max Burchartz, Suse Byk, Hans Finsler, Hein Gorny, Florence Henri, Ewald Hoinkis, Andre Kertesz, Rudolf Kramer, Helmar Lerski, Alice Lex-Nerlinger, Man Ray …
L’estasi delle cose // The Ecstasy of Things // Im Rausch der Dinge

Spazio Oberdan, Milano (IT)
22 Mar 2005 – 12 Jun 2005

with Eugene Atget, Aldo Ballo, Olivo Barbieri, Hans Bellmer, Hans Dukkers, Harold E. Edgerton, Hans Finsler, Fischli & Weiss, Jean Louis Garnell, John Gossage, Andre Kertesz, Francois Kollar …
Iconos: La mejor fotografía y cine de la George Eastman House

Fundación Barrié, Santiago de Compostela (ES)
5 Oct 2004 – 9 Jan 2005

with Eddie Adams, Ansel Adams, Albert Sands Southworth & Josiah Johnson Hawes, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Arthur Ann Segan, Diane Arbus, Eugene Atget, Felix Bonfils, Margaret Bourke-White, Mathew B. Brady, Adolphe Braun, Wynn Bullock …
La Collection Ordóñez Falcón - Une passion partagée

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

with Berenice Abbott, Onesipe Aguado, Olympe 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 …
Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self

ICP Center of Photography, New York (US)
12 Dec 2003 – 29 Feb 2004

with Ansel Adams, Andrea Robbins & Max Becher, Eleanor Antin, Diane Arbus, Shimon Attie, Richard Avedon, Aziz + Cucher, John Baldessari, Tina Barney, Vanessa Beecroft, Sandra Bermudez, Louis Carlos Bernal …
The Eye Club

Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco (US)
4 Sep 2003 – 29 Nov 2003

with Ernest James Bellocq, Chuck Close, Richard Misrach, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Andy Warhol, Carleton E. Watkins
Color Photography

MoMA Museum Modern Art, New York (US)
9 May 1950 – 4 Jul 1950

with Ansel Adams, Richard Avedon, Erwin Blumenfeld, Josef Breitenbach, Harry Callahan, Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Harold Corsini, Ralph Crane, Ted Croner, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Loomis Dean …
Photography 1839–1937

MoMA Museum Modern Art, New York (US)
17 Mar 1937 – 18 Apr 1937

with Berenice Abbott, Ansel Adams, Robert Adamson, Laure Albin-Guillot, Rogi André, Ottomar Anschütz, Eugene Atget, Edouard Baldus, Hippolyte Bayard, Ilse Bing, Bisson Freres, Brassai …

Events

THE PHOTOGRAPHY SHOW

presented by AIPAD 2026

CURATORIAL GALLERY, New York (US)
23 Apr 2026 – 26 Apr 2026

with Jess T. Dugan, Sissi Farassat, Emil Otto Hoppe, Lucas Leffler
Paris Photo 2024 - Group show

Booth B25

Bruce Silverstein, Paris (FR)
7 Nov 2024 – 10 Nov 2024

with Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Diane Arbus, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Werner Bischof, Jacques-Andre Boiffard, Constantin Brancusi, Francis Bruguire, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Ray Francis, Robert Frank, Chester Higgins, Walter Iooss Jr. …
THE PHOTOGRAPHY SHOW

presented by AIPAD 2024

AIPAD, New York (US)
25 Apr 2024 – 28 Apr 2024

with Berenice Abbott, David Alekhuogie, Rogi André, Ljubodrag Andric, Dieter Appelt, Diane Arbus, Tom Arndt, Richard Avedon, Edouard Baldus, Roger Ballen, Mary Ellen Bartley, Lillian Bassman …
The Collection of Sir Elton John

Christie's New York, New York (US)
22 Feb 2024 – 23 Feb 2024

with Francis Bruguire, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Imogen Cunningham, El Lissitzky, John Hagemeyer, Lewis Hine, Horst P. Horst, Andre Kertesz, Edmund Kesting, Rudolf Koppitz, Dorothea Lange, Tina Modotti …
PHOTOGRAPHIES

CHRISTIE'S Paris, Paris (FR)
25 Oct 2022 – 8 Nov 2022

with Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Valerie Belin, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Tim Flach, Adam Fuss, Nan Goldin, Prince Gyasi, Candida Hoefer, Peter Lindbergh, Man Ray , Etienne-Jules Marey …
Classic + Contemporary Photographs

Sotheby's New York, New York (US)
30 Sep 2021 – 5 Oct 2021

with Bernd & Hilla Becher, Hans Bellmer, Edward Burtynsky, Lynn Davis, Lee Friedlander, Yves Klein, Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Man Ray , Irving Penn, Cindy Sherman, Wolfgang Tillmans, Carrie Mae Weems
The Tie in Photography

Die Krawatte in der Photographie

Grisebach, Berlin (DE)
17 Sep 2021 – 3 Oct 2021

with Marianne Breslauer, Michel Comte, Herlinde Koelbl, Daido Moriyama, Sam Shaw, Andy Warhol
Photography / Photographie

A European Corporate Collection / Eine Europäische Unternehmenssammlung

Grisebach, Berlin (DE)
22 Nov 2019 – 26 Nov 2019

with Berenice Abbott, Ansel Adams, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Richard Avedon, Edouard Baldus, Josef Bartuska, Ruth Bernhard, Karl Blossfeldt, Erwin Blumenfeld, Edouard Boubat, Bill Brandt, Brassai …
photo la 2019

photo l.a., Santa Monica (US)
1 Feb 2019 – 3 Feb 2019

with Ansel Adams, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Diane Arbus, Keiichi Asano, Sid Avery, Roger Ballen, Lewis Baltz, Cara Barer, Jeffrey Becom, Valerie Belin, Ruth Bernhard, Tom Blachford …
Photographs

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

with Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Lewis Baltz, Peter Beard, Bill Brandt, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Lynn Davis, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, William Eggleston, Elger Esser, Fernand Fonssagrives, Robert Frank …
Classic Photographs Los Angeles 2018

Classic Photographs L.A., Santa Monica (US)
2 Feb 2018 – 4 Feb 2018

with Ansel Adams, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Diane Arbus, Eugene Atget, Edouard Boubat, Horace Bristol, Wynn Bullock, Harry Callahan, Cornell Capa, Brigitte Carnochan, Carl Corey, Imogen Cunningham …
Stripped Bare

Photographs from the Collection of Thomas Koerfer

CHRISTIE'S Paris, Paris (FR)
4 Nov 2017 – 9 Nov 2017

with Merry Alpern, Diane Arbus, Gregory Crewdson, Robert Frank, Nan Goldin, Katy Grannan, Man Ray , Robert Mapplethorpe, Eadweard J. Muybridge, Jack Pierson, Cindy Sherman, Francesca Woodman
Photographs

Sotheby's London, London (GB)
13 May 2017 – 18 May 2017

with Constantin Brancusi, Frantisek Drtikol, Robert Mapplethorpe, Sohei Nishino, Irving Penn, Thomas Struth, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Albert Watson
Visionaries: Photographs from the Emily and Jerry Spiegel Collection

Christie's New York, New York (US)

with Alvin Langdon Coburn, Frantisek Drtikol, Andre Kertesz, Man Ray , Paul Strand
Photographs

PHILLIPS New York, New York (US)

with Marina Abramovic, Ansel Adams, Lillian Bassman, Peter Beard, Vanessa Beecroft, Constantin Brancusi, Edward Burtynsky, William Eggleston, Robert Frank, Ormond Gigli, Candida Hoefer, Man Ray …