Field Trip - Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago

In today's field trip, we're heading to Chicago, IL to the popular Museum of Contemporary Photography. MOCP houses an extensive permanent collection, and exhibits the work of contempoary fine art photographers and photography students. 

Candy Cigarette by Sally Mann / MOCP Collection

High Plains Drifter by Simon Patterson / MOCP Collection

MOCP is the sole photography-only museum in the Midwestern U.S., and its mission as part of the Chicago College Chicago, an all-arts school, is clearcut.

The Museum strives to communicate the value and significance of photographic images as expressions of human thought, imagination, and creativity.

Blizzard by Anthony Goicolea / MOCP Collection 

Untitled from "Women are Beautiful" Portfolio by Garry Winogrand / MOCP Collection

Agnes in a Fur Collar by Anne Noggle / MOCP Collection

Sunny in the Sauna by Nan Goldin / MOCP Collection 

LOCATION

Museum of Contemporary Photography 
at Columbia College Chicago
600 S. Michigan
Chicago, IL 60605
312.369.7104

HOURS

The Museum is free and open to the public
Monday through Saturday, 10am - 5pm
Thursday, 10am - 8pm
Sunday, 12pm - 5pm

We're the New York Institute of Photography, a distance education school teaching photography since 1910 - over 100 years of knowledge and experience. Listen to the following podcast to learn more about who we are and what we do.

AUDIO LINK: WHAT IS THE NEW YORK INSTITUTE OF PHOTOGRAPHY? [20:58M]