George Stephanopoulos Collection of Photographs

The George Stephanopoulos Collection of Photographs contains primarily black-and-white, gelatin silver prints, along with some color prints from multiple prominent photographers spanning the mid-20th century, such as: Leonard Freed, Francis Miller, Larry Colwell, Ken Heyman, Henry Horenstein, Jacques Lowe, Danny Lyon, Ilse Bing, Harold Halliday Costain, Arthur Rothstein, and Rob Snitzer. The collection also contains some 19th century photographs of prominent sites in Florence, Rome, and Naples by an unknown photographer and Fratelli Alinari. In addition, the collection contains post-war Italian photographers' works, such as: Ulise Bezzi, Tino Carretto, Ermanno Comar, Carlo Amorati, Augusto Cantomazza, Antonio Giavazzi, Carlo Monari, Ezio Quiresi, and Mario Finocchario.

Politically oriented photography spanning the 1950s to 2000s created primarily by Dmitri Baltermants and Leonard Freed depicting prominent communist leaders in China, the USSR, and Indonesia also makes up portions of this collection. Some gelatin silver prints depict Khrushchev in Eastern Europe and Asia among people, surveying harvests. Photographs by Leonard Freed depict activities of the Spanish Workers Socialist Party activities during the 1970s.

The collection also contains archival pigment prints of still lifes by Victor Schraeger, as well as gelatin silver prints by Eduoard Baldus, Max Baur, Pierre Boucher, and Denise Bellon spanning the 1860s to post war WWII showing city life in Paris, Germany, and the countryside of Southern Italy and Morocco.

Also included are several advertisements and archival pigment prints depicting still objects, as well as chromogenics by Patrick Nagatani depicting Ryoichi Excavations in Moche, Peru circa 2001. Other photographs by an unknown photographer in India spanning the late 19th century are printed using albumen from a collodion negative process depicting locations in India during that time.