Recently, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) recieved 3,500 photographs thanks to the financial support of Wallis Annenberg and the Annenberg Foundation, LACMA's trustee. The art works were from Marjorie and Leonard Vernon, collectors who surveys the history of photography "in the works of 700 artists, including leaidng 19th and 20th century figures".

Now, LACMA has 12,000 images in their hands and they will be showing their new additions in "A Story of Photography: The Marjorie and Leonard Vernon Collection" this October. The Annenberg fund had paid a hefty sum for these photographs and the rest was donated by the Vernon couple's daughter, Carol Vernon and her husband Robert Turbin.

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