The contemporary daguerreotype series was funded by the Australian Research Council project ‘Capturing Foundational Australian Photography in a Globalising World’ DE200101322, and supported by the ...
The invention of the camera is usually attributed to Frenchman Louis Daguerre - who was first to announce his invention in 1839, and gave his name to the first popular form of photograph – the ...
NEWBURYPORT – Dr. Henry Coit Perkins had a good eye, kept great notes, and probably had no fear of heights. Those traits came together one day in October 1839, when Perkins hauled his daguerreotype ...
NEW YORK – Hans P. Kraus Jr. Fine Photographs will present the exhibition Adam Fuss Daguerreotypes & The Womb of the Pre-Raphaelite Imagination from September 28 – December 2, 2016. Over three decades ...
IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. One of the earliest forms of ...
The Sheldon & Davis gallery building at 334 King Street was demolished in 1963. A generous number of photographs by Sheldon, and Sheldon & Davis, have survived the consequences of time. The ...
The Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC, has purchased a groundbreaking collection of images by some of history’s earliest Black photographers. Pictures from the first African ...