It is difficult to imagine such an exhibition being taken so seriously by the art world today.

The news peg was the Cincinnati obscenity trial involving the exhibition of explicity sexual photographs, taken by Robert Mapplethorpe, at the Contemporary Arts Center there.

Now the museum itself has to come up with about a third of its annual $12 million budget, through tickets, licensing, compensation for exhibitions taken abroad and, increasingly, donations.

The pictures in this exhibition, taken from the 1930's to the 1960's, mostly promote scientists as discoverers and products as quiet marvels.

Ecce Homo is a controversial exhibition of 12 photographs of different biblical situations, in modern surroundings, taken by the Swedish photographer Elisabeth Ohlson Wallin.

An exhibition at the Legion of Honor, called After the Ruins, features Mark Klett's modern rephotography of images taken after the disaster.

In 1997 Melbourne's Gallery 101 mounted a world-premiere exhibition of Robert's photographs of Mick Jagger, taken during the production of Ned Kelly.

An exhibition of those photographs, taken of Placentia in the mid 1990's, will open on Feb. 28 at the Print Center in Philadelphia and continue through May 3.

The one-room exhibition of 204 advertising photographs, taken by Aldo Fallai and Norman Watson, was underwritten by the Giorgio Armani Fashion Corporation.

An exhibition of photographs of buildings, landscapes and portraits taken by the late architects Jose Antonio Coderch, Charles Eames and Giuseppe Pagano runs through June 25.