"Visual reverberations" recall the famous and anonymous.

• Position: Portraiture - Recollection: Thirty Years of Photography at The New York Public Library - Brief article

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"Recollection: Thirty Years of Photography at The New York Public Library" features the work of more than 90 prominent photographers. It is not a survey exhibition of photographic history and processes, but rather a carefully curated work based loosely on the genre of portraiture.

People and human nature are the subjects of these works. The earliest photo, for instance, is Zaida BenYusuf's Grover Cleveland" (1901): the latest portraits, by Stephen Dupont and Robin Bowman, both are from 2004. Dorothea Lang documents "Woman of the High Plains" (1938): Amy Arbus photographed "Ann Magnuson on Park Avenue" (1981): Penny Diane Wolin's "That's His Mother. He Never Married" (1985) also is on display.

Other featured artists include Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson. Andre Kertesz. Duane Michals. August Sander. Cindy Sherman. and William Wegman.

Famous and anonymous faces mingle in the exhibition, as happiness, regret, and melancholy interact. "The exhibition is not only an attempt to show another--perhaps less well-known--side of [our] Photography Collection. its meant also as a homage to the first...