Exposed
Voyeuristic images of Jackie Kennedy, Greta Garbo, and unsuspecting lovers expose their private moments in a new exhibit at the Tate Modern. VIEW OUR GALLERY.

© Georges Dudognon

Greta Garbo in the Club St. Germain, ca. 1950s
Gelatin silver print; 7 1/16 x 7 1/8 in. (17.94 x 18.5 cm)
Collection SFMOMA, Foto Forum purchase
© Georges Dudognon

Anita Ekberg and Husband Anthony Steel, Vecchia Roma, 1958
Gelatin silver print; 11 11/16 x 14 5/8 in. (29.69 x 37.15 cm)
Collection SFMOMA, Accessions Committee Fund purchase
© Tazio Secchiaroli / David Secchiaroli

What Makes Jackie Run? Central Park, New York City, October 4, 1971
Gelatin silver print; 7 3/8 x 9 7/8 in. (18.73 x 25.08 cm)
Collection SFMOMA, Accessions Committee Fund purchase
© Ron Galella, Ltd., courtesy the artist

Paris Hilton is seen through the window of a police car as she is transported from her home to court by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department in Los Angeles on Friday, June 8, 2007
chromogenic print; 11 x 14 in. (27.94 x 35.56 cm)
Associated Press Images, United Kingdom
© Associated Press / Nick Ut

[Subway Passenger, New York], 1941
Gelatin silver print; 4 3/4 x 5 3/4 in. (12.07 x 14.61 cm)
Collection SFMOMA, fractional and promised gift of Carla Emil and Rich Silverstein
© Walker Evans Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

San Francisco, 1973
Gelatin silver print; 6 3/4 x 4 1/2 in. (17.15 x 11.43 cm)
Collection SFMOMA, gift of the artist
© Bill Dane

New York, 1969
Gelatin silver print; 11 x 14 in. (27.94 x 35.56 cm)
Collection SFMOMA, fractional and promised gift of Carla Emil and Rich Silverstein
© Estate of Garry Winogrand, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco

Blow Job (film still), 1964
16mm film, black-and-white, silent, transferred to video, 41 min.; dimensions variable; collection and
© 2010 The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburg, PA, a museum of Carnegie Institute. All rights reserved

Head #10, from the series Heads, 2001
Chromogenic print; 48 x 60 in. (121.92 x 152.4 cm); Pilara Family Foundation, San Francisco
© Philip-Lorca diCorcia, courtesy David Zwirner, New York

Untitled, ca. 1950s-1980
Gelatin silver print and ink; 7 x 4 5/8 in. (17.78 x 11.75 cm)
Collection SFMOMA, Accessions Committee Fund purchase
© Miroslav Tichའ/ Foundation TichའOcean

The Park, 1971
Gelatin silver print
courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York

[Couple engaged in sexual activity in the back of a car], ca. 1945
Sepia-toned gelatin silver print; 4 3/16 x 6 3/16 in. (10.67 x 15.75 cm)
The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction
© The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction

Secuencia rescate de un suicide en la cúpula el toreo (Suicide rescue from the top of the Toreo Stadium) (detail), 1971
Six gelatin silver prints; dimensions variable
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Accessions Committee Fund purchase
© Enrique Metinides

Assassination of John F. Kennedy, November 22, 1963
Gelatin silver print; 4 3/8 x 5 5/8 in. (11.11 x 14.29 cm)
Collection SFMOMA, Accessions Committee Fund purchase
© 1967 (Renewed 1995) The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza.

San Francisco, 2004
Gelatin silver print; 16 3/4 x 11 1/8 in. (42.55 x 28.26 cm)
Collection SFMOMA, Accessions Committee Fund purchase
© Richard Gordon

Compact, from The Dating Surveillance Project, 1998
Gelatin silver print; 18 3/4 x 23 in. (47.6 x 58.4 cm)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Accessions Committee Fund purchase
© Laurie Long

Hague Conference, 1930
Gelatin silver print; 4 1/4 x 6 in. (10.8 x 15.24 cm)
Collection SFMOMA, promised gift of Paul Sack to the Sack Photographic Trust of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

The Electrocution of Ruth Snyder, 1928
Gelatin silver print; 4 x 4 in. (10.16 x 10.16 cm)
Collection SFMOMA, Accessions Committee Fund purchase

Stranger No. 2, 1999
Chromogenic print; 31 1/4 x 31 1/4 in. (79.4 x 79.4 cm)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Accessions Committee Fund purchase
© Shizuka Yokomizo

leather, cloth, rubber, metal, and glass
4 1/8 x 3 x 11 1/2 in. (10.5 x 7.6 x 29.2 cm)
National Museum of American History Photographic History Collection, gift of The New York News
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