Art: Conversations: Photography from the Bank of America Collection

What this vast collection lacks in personality, it makes up for in quality and variety. More than 100 photographs have been chosen from a repository of thousands, with the aim of inspiring new “conversations” between images from the mid-1800s and the present day. Joe Rosenthal’s iconic and controversial Flag Raising at Iwo Jima (1945) is displayed next to Thomas Struth’s 1989 shot of visitors to the Louvre examining Géricault’s Raft of the Medusa painting. Man Ray’s dewy portrait of a kohl-eyed Nancy Cunard from 1925 shares space with Tomoko Sawada’s 100 passport-photo self-portraits taken in 1998. From Dorothea Lange’s Damaged Child, taken in Shacktown, Oklahoma, in 1939, to work by contemporary artists including Vik Muniz, Hiroshi Sugimoto and Cindy Sherman, the arrangement skips from the tragic to the surreal, mixing documentary photographs with staged subjects. Works by Alfred Stieglitz, Harry Callahan and Irving Penn are included in the selection, which comes to Dublin via Boston and Milan.