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--> ABOUT | The Burns Archive top of page Skip to Main Content ABOUT STANLEY B. BURNS, MD, FACS is an ophthalmologist and Research Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry, and Professor of Medical Humanities at New York University: Langone Medical Center. He is an internationally distinguished author, curator, historian, collector, and archivist. In 1975, he began collecting historic photography with an emphasis on unique photographs not available anywhere else. Dr. Burns’s collection of over one million vintage photographs (1840-1950) has been generally recognized as the most important private comprehensive collection of early photography. In 1977, he founded The Burns Archive to share his discoveries, and he began his writing career. Dr. Burns has written 50 photo-historical texts and more than one thousand journal articles, and has curated more than one hundred exhibitions. He consults on feature films, documentaries, and television series. He was the Medical, Historical and Technical Advisor to the HBO/Cinemax series THE KNICK about a New York City hospital in the year 1900, as well as the PBS Civil War series MERCY STREET. When not collecting, Dr. Burns spends his time consulting, lecturing, creating exhibits, and writing books on under-appreciated areas of history and photography. ELIZABETH A. BURNS is the Creative and Operations Director of The Burns Archive and Press.…

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Cigars! Photography, Industry, and Identity in Ybor City

Tampa

Apr 9, 2026 — Jul 8, 2026

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Driving into History: Cameras, Cars & Creativity

Kalamazoo

Mar 1, 2026

Speaking in Pairs

New York

Feb 5, 2026 — Apr 29, 2026

LINDA FREGNI NAGLER. Anger Pleasure Fear

LINDA FREGNI NAGLER

Turin

Oct 29, 2025 — Jan 27, 2026

Picturing Mobility: Black Tourism and Leisure during the Jim Crow Era

Baltimore

Sep 2, 2025 — Dec 1, 2025

Living with Radiation: Historical Exhibition

Erlangen

Jun 12, 2025 — Aug 31, 2025

Delicate Sights: Photography and Glass

New Orleans

Dec 6, 2024 — Mar 6, 2025

ZUR ADER! NEUE BLICKE AUF EINE ALTE PRAXIS

Heidelberg

Nov 20, 2024 — Feb 18, 2025

Visibility & Resistance: New Acquisitions of Contemporary Afro-Mexican Photography

New York

Aug 9, 2024 — Nov 7, 2024

RESIST!

Indianapolis

Apr 13, 2024 — Jul 12, 2024

Tobacco, from cure to poison Le tabac, du remède au poison

Rennes

Mar 20, 2024 — May 15, 2024

Unnamed Figures: Black Presence and Absence in the Early American North

New York

Nov 15, 2023 — Feb 13, 2024

Homecoming

York

Sep 9, 2023 — Nov 15, 2023

In Pictures: Walter Benjamin's Little History of Photography

Jerusalem

Aug 8, 2023 — Nov 6, 2023

Mapping the Michigan Green Book

Detroit

May 19, 2023 — Aug 17, 2023

Pittsburgh and the Great Migration: Black Mobility and the Automobile

Pittsburgh

May 6, 2023 — Aug 4, 2023

Material Witness: Folk and Self-Taught Artists at Work

New York

Mar 17, 2023 — Jun 15, 2023

The Medical Lens: Highlights from the Stanley B. Burns, MD, Historic Medical Photography Collection

New Haven

Jan 27, 2023 — Mar 19, 2023

Documentary Genealogies: Photography 1848-1917

Madrid

Nov 16, 2022 — Feb 14, 2023

Called to the Camera: Black American Studio Photographers

New Orleans

Sep 16, 2022 — Dec 15, 2022

Other Worlds Than This

Or

Jul 23, 2022 — Oct 21, 2022

Das Zweite Gesicht [Second Sight]

Me

Jul 28, 2021 — Oct 26, 2021

Artifact (XXX): Selections from Secret Collections

New York

Dec 30, 2020 — Feb 24, 2021

Floating World: Pleasure & Entertainment in Meiji Japan

New York

Feb 28, 2019 — Mar 27, 2019

PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR

New York

May 27, 2013 — Aug 25, 2013

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