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1896 Washington Salon and Art Photographic Exhibition http://americanhistory.si.edu/1896/index.htm Three prestigious Washington, D.C. organizations played a major role in the establishment and acceptance of art photography in America. The Camera Club of the Capital Bicycle Club sponsored the 1896 Washington Salon and Art Photographic Exhibition. The Co |
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Heavens Above http://www.nypl.org/research/sibl/trouvelot/ An online exhibit from the New York Public Library that compares the 19th-century chromolithographs of astronomical observations made by artist/astronomer Etienne Trouvelot with comparable images photographed by NASA as part of its space program. |
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Recollecting a Culture: Selections from the Fotokino Archive http://www.bu.edu/prc/fotokino/index.htm Recollecting a Culture is a study of the political and economic pressures on the visual arts of the German Democratic Republic (GDR). It draws from the Fotokino Archive, comprised of approximately 14,000 prints and several thousand negatives, which was ac |
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Concerning the Spiritual in Photography http://www.bu.edu/prc/spirit.htm Approaching photography and photographer literally as a "medium," this exhibition considers how historical and present-day practitioners utilize and reference intrinsic mechanics of light-sensitive media to achieve spiritual allusions an |
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Museum of Modern Art Collection and Virtual Exhibitions http://www.moma.org/collection/depts/photography/index.html The Museum began to collect photographs in 1930 and established the Photography Department in 1940. Site links to MoMA's virtual group and one-person exhibitions, including Rudy Burkhardt, Andreas Gursky, Aleksandr Rodchenko, David Goldblatt, and C |
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IDEA Photographic | After Modernism http://www.museumofnewmexico.org/mfa/ideaphotographic/index.html A contemporary view of history from the from the photography collections at the Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, Princeton University Art Museum, and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. |
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Robert Shlaerre: Sights Once Seen http://www.cartermuseum.org/Exhibitions/sightsonceseen/sightsonceseen.html In 1853, explorer John C. Frémont led an expedition from Missouri to California in an attempt to locate a route for the proposed transcontinental railway. Tragically, the work of the expedition's original photographer, Solomon Nunes Carvalho, was lo |
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American Photographs: The First Century http://nmaa-ryder.si.edu/collections/exhibits/helios/amerphotos.html Presents a wide-ranging selection of photographs from the Smithsonian American Art Museum collection, including Civil War images by George Barnard and the Mathew Brady Studio, spectacular western landscapes by Timothy O'Sullivan and William Henry Jac |
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Between Home and Heaven: Contemporary American Landscape Photography http://nmaa-ryder.si.edu/collections/exhibits/helios/homeandheaven.html To reveal the truth within the landscape, photographers of the present day have had to find a way to mediate between the sometimes harsh realities of contemporary life and the edenic traditions of the genre -- between home and heaven. Featuring 90 works b |
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Secrets of the Dark Chamber: The Art of the American Daguerreotype http://nmaa-ryder.si.edu/collections/exhibits/helios/darkchamber.html A virtual exhibition of photographs, contemporary interpretations and historical texts, and Real Audio tours, from the photographic collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Exhibition curated by Merry Foresta. |
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Urban Life Through Two Lenses http://www.mccord-museum.qc.ca/en/ The exhibition represents multiple approaches to history, material culture and time. Photographs by William Notman (1826-1891), re-visited and re-photographed by contemporary photographer Andrzej Maciejewski, with separate historical, photographic, and mu |