More Collection highlights
The RIC's collection includes nearly 375,000 objects that span the history of the medium of photography. These selected highlights feature just a few of the varied works represented in our expansive and growing collection.

Hippolyte Bayard (French, 1801–1887), Portrait d’Homme, Edition des Calotypes Originaux D’Hippolyte Bayard, ca. 1845, gelatin silver print. Ryerson Image Centre, Purchase, 1979 (FP.1980.0010)

Francis Frith (British, 1822–1898), Pylon Gateway at Medinet – Habou, ca. 1862, albumen print. Ryerson Image Centre, Purchase, 1984 (FP.1984.0013)

Maurice Tabard (French, 1897–1984), Parry, 1929, gelatin silver print. Ryerson Image Centre, Gift of Mira Godard, 1994 (FP.1994.0023)

Stephen Livick (Canadian, b. 1945), Costume Hijra, 1987, gum bichromate print. Ryerson Image Centre, Anonymous gift, 1994 (FP.1994.0073)

Edward Burtynsky (Canadian, b. 1955), Nickel Tailings #34, Sudbury, Ontario, 1996, chromogenic colour print. Ryerson Image Centre. Gift of the Artist, 1999 (IA.1999.0063)

Edward Burtynsky (Canadian, b. 1955), Nickel Tailings #35, Sudbury, Ontario, 1996, chromogenic colour print. Ryerson Image Centre, Gift of the Artist, 1999 (IA.1999.0064)

Elaine Ling (Canadian, born China, 1946–2016), Atacama Stones #1, 2001, selenium-toned gelatin silver print. Ryerson Image Centre, Gift of the Artist, 2001 (IA.2001.0062)

Volker Seding (Canadian, born Germany, 1943–2007), 103 Greene Street, N.Y.C., 1999, sepia-toned gelatin silver print. Ryerson Image Centre, Gift of the Artist, 2001 (IA.2001.0083)

Gabor Szilasi (Canadian, born Hungary, 1928), left: Andor Pasztor, Montreal, 1996, selenium-toned gelatin silver print; right: His Room, Montreal, 2002, chromogenic colour print. Ryerson Image Centre, Gift of the Artist, 2002 (IA.2002.0024)

Ruth Kaplan (Canadian, b. 1955), Thermal Pool, Myvatn, Iceland, 2002, selenium-toned gelatin silver print. Ryerson Image Centre, Gift of the Artist, 2003 (IA.2003.0032)

Ansel Adams (American, 1902–1984), Fern Spring, Dusk, Yosemite Valley California, ca. 1961, gelatin silver print. Ryerson Image Centre, Gift of Don Dickinson, 2004 (IA.2004.0020)

Phil Bergerson (Canadian, b. 1947), [Untitled], 1998, chromogenic colour print. Ryerson Image Centre, Gift of the Artist, 2006 (IA.2006.0018)

Andreas Feininger (American, born France, 1906–1999), [Self portrait], 1941, gelatin silver print. Ryerson Image Centre, Gift of Gertrud Feininger, 2009 (IA.2009.0009)

Edward Steichen (American, 1879–1973), Cyclamen, Mrs. Philip Lydig. Plate from Camera Work XLII/XLIII, published 1913, photogravure on Japanese paper. Ryerson Image Centre, Gift of Mark Wolfson, 2010 (IA.2010.0031)

Eadweard J. Muybridge (American, 1830–1904), Movements, Male. Descending stairs full demijohn on shoulder, Plate 136 from Animal Locomotion 1872–1885, 1872–1885, collotype. Ryerson Image Centre, Gift of Mark Wolfson, 2010 (IA.2010.0032)

Brassaï (Romanian, 1899–1984), III Odalisque, Transmutations par Brassai, 1930–1932, gelatin silver print cliches-verre. Ryerson Image Centre, Gift of Mark Wolfson, 2010 (PA.1973.0111:008)

Eugène Atget (French, 1857–1927), Grand Trianon, 1923–1924, dye-toned albumen print. Ryerson Image Centre, Purchase, 1973 (PA.1973.0100)

Henri Cartier-Bresson (French, 1908–2004), Israel, Jerusalem, 1967, gelatin silver print. Ryerson Image Centre, Purchase, 1970 (PA.1973.0116a)

Lee Friedlander (American, b. 1934), Stony Point, New York, 1966, gelatin silver print. Ryerson Image Centre, Purchase, 1973 (PA.1973.0142)

Paul Strand (American, 1890–1976), Cristo with Thorns, Huexolta, Mexico, 1933, printed 1967, photogravure. Ryerson Image Centre, Purchase, 1973 (PA.1973.0496:017)

Ralph Eugene Meatyard (American, 1925–1972), Madonna, from Ralph Eugene Meatyard Portfolio Three, Center for Photographic Studies, 1964, printed 1974, gelatin silver print. Collection of the Ryerson Image Centre, Ryerson University (PA.1974.0553:0001)

Ralph Eugene Meatyard (American, 1925–1972), Romance of Ambrose Bierce #3, from Ralph Eugene Meatyard Portfolio Three, Center for Photographic Studies, 1964, printed 1974, gelatin silver print. Collection of the Ryerson Image Centre, Ryerson University (PA.1974.0553:0004)

Edward Weston (American, 1886–1958), Two Shells, 1927, gelatin silver print. Ryerson Image Centre, Gift of the Focus Museum of Photography, 1978 (PA.1978.0003)

W. Eugene Smith (American, 1918–1978), Waiting for Survivors: The Andrea Doria Sinking, July 25, 1956, gelatin silver print. Ryerson Image Centre (PA.1978.0006)

André Kertész (American, 1894–1985), Satiric Dancer, Paris, 1926, printed later, gelatin silver print. Ryerson Image Centre, Purchase, 1978 (PA.1978.0014)

Unknown photographer, [Marble statue of woman], ca. 1880, direct positive. Ryerson Image Centre, Dr. Martin J. Bass and Gail Silverman Bass Collection (RIC. 2014.1262)

Antoine Claudet (French, 1797–1867), Portrait of Lady L. Synge-Hutchison, ca. 1851, hand-coloured daguerreotype. Ryerson Image Centre, Dr. Martin J. Bass and Gall Silverman Bass Collection (RIC.2014.1263)

Robert Burley (Canadian, b. 1957), Kodak Image Centre, Building 7, Kodak Canada, Toronto, 2006, chromogenic colour print. Ryerson Image Centre, Purchase, 2014 (RIC.2014.2018)