Allegory and Illusion: Early Portrait Photography from South Asia presents approximately 120 photographs and a selection of albums, glass plate negatives, cabinet cards, cartes-de-visites, and ...
Arresting portraits, now a part of the Smithsonian collections, illuminate the little-known role these artists played in chronicling 19th-century life Rhoda Goodridge in a 2 ¾-by-3 ¼-inch ambrotype ...
Installation view, ‘Allegory and Illusion’ (all photographs by the author for Hyperallergic) The Rubin Museum’s Allegory and Illusion: Early Portrait Photography from South Asia opens an often ...
In mid-nineteenth-century America, the growing presence of women in public life coincided with the rise of portrait photography. This exhibition of daguerreotypes and ambrotypes from the 1840s and ...
Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya, “We Are Multitudes” (2021), mural, Washington, DC (photo by Will Martinez). Phingbodhipakkiya will join Leila McNeill and Anna Reser, co-founders of Lady Science and ...
Photographers seeking customers during the medium’s early years often urged the public to “Secure the shadow, ere the substance fade.” Hinting at life’s fragility, this tagline underscored photography ...
This image, taken by an unknown photographer in 1905, is an example of a cyanotype. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, William L. Schaeffer Collection A new exhibition at the crossroads of art, history ...
Portrait photography is a great passion of mine. Ever since flicking through the photography books of great portrait photographers such as Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, Gordon Parks, and Arnold Newman, ...
Next time you're strolling through the antique shop, make sure to listen to your gut. Italian entrepreneur and collector ...
When the painting turned up at a Bay Area auction, and an eagle-eyed folk art collector had a gut feeling he'd seen it before. John Bradley, Ann Totten (1834). Stolen in 1970, this portrait, one of a ...
The relationship between photography and modern medicine is akin to siblings: emerging almost simultaneously in the 19th century, they grew and evolved together, and today, they are more inseparable ...
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