Best photography galleries
Find the best galleries showing fine-art photography in NYC.
These galleries are renowned for showing the best work by photographers both established and up-and-coming. Click through to see what's on view now.
International Center of Photography
- Price band: 1/4
- Critics choice
The International Center of Photography boasts two floors of exhibition space, as well as a library housing thousands of biographical and photographic files.
- 1133 Sixth Ave, (at 43rd St)
Aperture Gallery
- Free
Located in the headquarters of the Aperture Foundation, the Apeture Gallery hosts free artist’s lectures, panel discussions and book signings along with exhibitions.
- 547 W 27th St, fourth floor, (between Tenth and Eleventh Aves), 10001
Pace/MacGill
- Free
Part of Pace Gallery, Pace/MacGill, focuses on photography, showing such established names as Walker Evans, Robert Frank and Irving Penn.
- 32 E 57th St, ninth floor, (between Madison and Park Aves)
Yossi Milo Gallery
- Free
Yossi Milo’s impressive roster of camera talent encompasses emerging artists as well as more established photographers.
- 245 Tenth Ave, (between 24th and 25th Sts)
Danziger Gallery
- Free
This contemporary photography gallery opened in 1989 in Soho, and settled into its current Chelsea location in 2004.
- 527 W 23rd St, (between Tenth and Eleventh Aves), 10011
Howard Greenberg Gallery
- Free
Founded in 1981 the gallery’s collection includes images snapped by Berenice Abbott, Edward Steichen and Henri Cartier-Bresson.
- 41 E 57th St, (between Madison and Park Aves)
Steven Kasher Gallery
- Free
This Chelsea space is your best bet for a photographic history of New York.
- 521 W 23rd St, (between Tenth and Eleventh Aves)
Yancey Richardson Gallery
- Free
This gallery shows contemporary works by such artists as Hellen van Meene, Sebastião Salgado and William Eggleston.
- 535 W 22nd St, (between Tenth and Eleventh Aves)
Robert Mann Gallery
- Free
Robert Mann Gallery specializes in 20th-century masters of photography and an international cadre of emerging and midcareer artists working in photo-based art.
- 210 Eleventh Ave, (between 24th and 25th Sts)
Bonni Benrubi Gallery, Inc.
This gallery, which, since its 1987 founding has migrated from its original home on the Upper East Side to a space in the Fuller Building on East 57th Street, specializes in 20th-century and contemporary photography.
- 41 E 57th St, (between Madison and Park Aves), 10022
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