Ralph Steiner

*1899-1986 / United States

Works

Solo exhibitions

A Point of View

A Collection of Contact Photographs

Scott Nichols Gallery, San Francisco (US)
5 Jan 2012 – 25 Feb 2012

Group

Wish List: Gallery Staff Must Haves

Stephen Daiter, Chicago (US)
8 Dec 2023 – 2 Feb 2024

with Eva Besnyoe, Lynne Cohen, Robert Frank, David Goldblatt, John Gossage, David Noble, Gary Schneider, Aaron Siskind, Charles Swedlund, Alex Webb
A New York Minute

Street Photography, 1920–1950

Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland (US)
10 Jul 2021 – 7 Nov 2021

with Roy DeCarava, Walker Evans, Louis Faurer, Arnold Genthe, Leon Levinstein, Helen Levitt, Lisette Model, Walter Rosenblum, Lou Stoumen, Lloyd Ullberg, James Van Der Zee
Loose Ends

Hidden Gems from the Gallery Archive

Scott Nichols Gallery, San Francisco (US)
27 Mar 2019 – 18 Apr 2019

with Berenice Abbott, Ansel Adams, Margo Davis, William A. Garnett, Mark Klett, Paul Strand
New York, New York

Scott Nichols Gallery, San Francisco (US)
24 Jan 2019 – 13 Mar 2019

with Berenice Abbott, Diane Arbus, Ruth Bernhard, Lucienne Bloch, Rudy Burckhardt, Andreas Feininger, Dave Heath, Chester Higgins, Dorothea Lange, Helen Levitt, Robert Mapplethorpe, Barbara Morgan …
All You Need Is Love

Scheinbaum & Russek, Santa Fe (US)
9 Feb 2019 – 10 Mar 2019

with Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Brassai, Harry Callahan, Paul Caponigro, Manuel Carrillo, Henri Cartier-Bresson, John Dugdale, Lynn Geesaman, Luis Gonzalez Palma, Andre Kertesz, Annie Leibovitz, Ralph Eugene Meatyard …
Photographs from the Tom Birch Collection

Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington (US)
26 Jan 2019 – 2 Mar 2019

with Ansel Adams, Merry Alpern, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Zeke Berman, Karl Blossfeldt, Felix Bonfils, Jewgeni Chaldej, William E. Dassonville, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Andre Gelpke, Jan Groover …
Looking Back

Photographs Do Not Bend, Dallas (US)
17 Feb 2018 – 5 May 2018

with Arthur Ann Segan, Jack Delano, Peter Henry Emerson, Harold Feinstein, Andre Kertesz, Ruth Orkin, Arthur Rothstein, Alfred Stieglitz, Karl F. Struss
God Bless the Child

Scheinbaum & Russek, Santa Fe (US)
25 Nov 2016 – 31 Dec 2016

with Ansel Adams, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Edouard Boubat, Wynn Bullock, Manuel Carillo, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Luis Gonzalez Palma, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Ray K. Metzker, Sebastiao Salgado, Jennifer Schlesinger, W. Eugene Smith …
American Social Photography in the thirties

IVAM Institut d'Art Modern, Valencia (ES)
21 Apr 2016 – 30 Oct 2016

with Arthur Ann Segan, Jack Delano, Walker Evans, Lewis Hine, Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee, Carl Mydans, Gordon Parks, Marion Post Wolcott, Paul Strand
Architectural Abstractions

Vintage Photographs of New York

Keith de Lellis Gallery, New York (US)
17 Sep 2015 – 31 Oct 2015

with Margaret Bourke-White, Arthur Lavine, Jan Lukas, Benn Mitchell, Weegee
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 …
Scrutiny After The Glimpse

Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee (US)
4 Jun 2014 – 3 Aug 2014

with Tina Barney, Goseong Choi, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Fritz Liedtke, Man Ray , Thomas Ruff
Photography Rotation 8

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

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

Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland (US)
24 Jun 2007 – 16 Sep 2007

with Ansel Adams, Albert Sands Southworth & Josiah Johnson Hawes, Arthur Ann Segan, William H. Bell, Ilse Bing, Margaret Bourke-White, Mathew B. Brady, Harry Callahan, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Imogen Cunningham, Thomas Eakins, Walker Evans …
Walker Evans and his early circle

Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York (US)
29 Oct 2004 – 4 Dec 2004

with Berenice Abbott, Walker Evans, Helen Levitt, Peter Seaker, Ben Shahn
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 …
Abstraction in Photography

MoMA Museum Modern Art, New York (US)
2 May 1951 – 4 Jul 1951

with Ansel Adams, Diane Arbus, Allen Arbus, Ferenc Berko, Erwin Blumenfeld, Mathew B. Brady, Josef Breitenbach, Alexey Brodovitch, Francis Bruguire, Harry Callahan, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Alvin Langdon Coburn …
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 …

Events

Paris Photo 2025 - Group show

Bruce Silverstein, Paris (FR)
13 Nov 2025 – 16 Nov 2025

with Berenice Abbott, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Ilse Bing, Constantin Brancusi, Harry Callahan, Julia Margaret Cameron, Robert Capa, Paul Caponigro, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Adger Cowans, Frantisek Drtikol, Josef Ehm …
Photography

Photographie

Lempertz, Köln (DE)
26 Nov 2016 – 1 Dec 2016

with Eve Arnold, Roger Ballen, Ilse Bing, Brassai, Harry Callahan, Arno Fischer, Burt Glinn, Thomas Hoepker, Peter Keetman, Gyoergy Kepes, Barbara Klemm, Francois Kollar …