Art
How Do You Picture a President?
We might think that many of our olde tyme presidents hearkened from an age before photography, but this exhibition of daguerreotypes proves that wrong.
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Portrait Photography Through the Lens of Fredrick Douglass
I Am Seen…Therefore, I Am at the Wadsworth Atheneum counters the racist images of Black Americans that were presented in mainstream media in the 19th century.
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Black Daguerreotypists Highlighted at the Smithsonian
The American Art Museum purchased a collection of early American photographs spanning the 1840s to the mid-1920s.
Art
The Tale of Jean-Gabriel Eynard, Gentleman Daguerreotypist
When the daguerreotype was introduced in 1839, some of the first to support this groundbreaking photographic process were the elite of Europe.
Art
Telling the History of Photographic Processes, from Daguerreotypes to Digital
The George Eastman House released a 12-part video series last month that starts with the silhouette and traces photography's development through daguerreotypes, cyanotypes, Kodachrome, and right up to digital.