Picturing New York

Depicting both the iconic city of New York that captivates the world's imagination and the idiosyncratic details that define New Yorkers' sense of home, the exhibition on show at the Irish Museum of Modern Art from November 25, 2009 to February 7, 2010, reveals the American metropolis in all its vitality, ambition and beauty. Picturing New York is a photographic anthology of 150 masterworks from the extraordinary collection of The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), taken by artists pursuing their own curiosity as well as professionals on assignment and covering the period from the 1880s to the present day.
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