| Walls of Algiers: Narratives of the Colonial City (May 19 - October 18, 2009) |
| Jo Ann Callis: Woman Twirling (March 31 - August 9, 2009) |
| Paul Outerbridge: Command Performance (March 31 - August 9, 2009) |
| In Focus: The Portrait (January 27 - June 14, 2009) |
| Dialogue among Giants: Carleton Watkins and the Rise of Photography in California (October 15 - March 1, 2008/2009) |
| Ten Years in Focus: The Artist and the Camera (March 25 - August 10, 2008) |
| August Sander: A Portrait of Germany (May 6 - September 14, 2008) |
| The Goat's Dance: Photographs by Graciela Iturbide (December 18 - April 13, 2007/2008) |
| André Kertész Photographs: Seven Decades (December 18 - April 13, 2007/2008) |
| In Focus: The Nude (October 9 - February 24, 2007/2008) |
| Edward Weston: Enduring Vision (July 31 - November 25, 2007) |
| Recent History: Photographs by Luc Delahaye (July 31 - November 25, 2007) |
| A Place in the Sun: Photographs of Los Angeles by John Humble (March 27 - July 8, 2007) |
| The Old Order and the New: P.H. Emerson and Photography 1885-1895 (March 27 - July 8, 2007) |
| Sigmar Polke: Photographs, 1968–1972 (February 20 - May 20, 2007) |
| Where We Live: Photographs of America from the Berman Collection (October 24 - February 25, 2006/2007) |
| Public Faces / Private Spaces: Recent Acquisitions (October 10 - February 4, 2006/2007) |
| Eliot Porter: In the Realm of Nature (June 13 - September 17, 2006) |
| Agitated Images: John Heartfield and German Photomontage, 1920-1938 (February 21 - June 25, 2006) |
| Robert Adams: Landscapes of Harmony and Dissonance (February 7 - May 28, 2006) |
| Scene of the Crime: Photo by Weegee (September 20 - January 22, 2005/2006) |
| Pictures for the Press (September 20 - January 22, 2005/2006) |
| Julius Shulman, Modernity and the Metropolis (October 11 - January 22, 2005/2006) |
| Three Roads Taken: The Photographs of Paul Strand (May 10 - September 4, 2005) |
| The Photographs of Frederick Sommer: A Centennial Tribute (May 10 - September 4, 2005) |
| All the Mighty World: The Photographs of Roger Fenton, 1852-1860 (February 1 - April 24, 2005) |
| Close to Home: An American Album (October 12 - January 16, 2004/2005) |
| Spirit into Matter: The Photographs of Edmund Teske (June 15 - September 26, 2004) |
| Photographers of Genius at the Getty (March 16 - July 25, 2004) |
| Recent Acquisitions: Eugène Atget, Brett Weston, William Garnett, Milton Rogovin (February 3 - May 30, 2004) |
| Julia Margaret Cameron, Photographer (October 21 - January 11, 2003/2004) |
| Photographs of Artists by Alexander Liberman (July 22 - October 19, 2003) |
| Strange Days: Photographs from the Sixties by Winogrand, Eggleston, and Arbus (July 1 - October 5, 2003) |
| About Life: The Photographs of Dorothea Lange (October 15 - February 9, 2002/2003) |
| Surrealist Muse: Lee Miller, Roland Penrose, and Man Ray (February 25 - June 15, 2003) |
| The Grapes of Wrath: Horace Bristol's California Photographs (October 15 - February 9, 2002/2003) |
| Gustave Le Gray, Photographer (July 9 - September 29, 2002) |
| Manuel Alvarez Bravo: Optical Parables (November 13 - February 17, 2001/2002) |
| Walker Evans: Before + After (July 10 - October 28, 2001) |