On the morning of Jan. 7, as thick black smoke billowed over the Pacific Palisades, newsrooms across the city mobilized without a key piece of news-gathering equipment.

The Thomas Walther Collection—341 photographs by 148 artists—represents the innovative vision of the 1920s and ’30s, a transformative period of modern photography and the foundation of our photo-based ...

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