
Anna May Wong portrait for the film Limehouse Blues, Soul of a Dragon, 1934.
Gelatin silver print, 12 7/8 × 10″ (32.7 × 25.4 cm)
Face Value
Celebrity Press Photography by over 58 photographers
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Exhibition: 28 Jun 2025 – 21 Jun 2026

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Wed-Mon 10:30-17:30 . Fri 10:30-20
The Museum of Modern Art announces Face Value: Celebrity Press Photography, the first major exhibition of Hollywood studio portraiture to be drawn from the Museum’s film stills archive since 1993. On view in the Titus and Morita Galleries, the exhibition will offer a revisionist look at the Department of Film’s photographic archive, examining the evolution of editorial practice before the digital age, AI technology, and social media reshaped the experience of celebrity. Face Value will feature over 200 works from 1921to 1996, including studio photography of Louis Armstrong, Harry Belafonte, Clara Bow, Louise Brooks, Bette Davis, Mia Farrow, Katharine Hepburn, Dennis Hopper, Lena Horne, Bela Lugosi, Carmen Miranda, Elvis Presley, Diana Ross, Barbara Stanwyck, Elizabeth Taylor, Spencer Tracy, Oprah Winfrey, and many others.