Sentences with phrase «american daguerreotypes»

She is the author of Love and Loss: American Portrait and Mourning Miniatures (Yale, 2000), Charles Demuth Poster Portraits: 1923 — 1929 (1994), and American Daguerreotypes from the Matthew R. Isenburg Collection (1989), and co-editor of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness (Yale, 2008).

The special $ 10 million gift allowed the curators to build on the collection's existing strengths — primarily its broad holding of American daguerreotypes and paper photographs — and to enhance its representation of 19th - and 20th - century European and contemporary international works.

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There are daguerreotypes of American Indians, a photograph of Malcolm X and a few Grateful Dead posters.

American astronomer William Cranch Bond and photographer John Adams Whipple produce the first photograph of a star when they take this daguerreotype of Vega.

In 1840, the American doctor and chemist John William Draper produced a daguerreotype of the Moon: the first astronomical photograph ever created in North America.

In 1850, two Americans — astronomer William Cranch Bond and photographer John Adams Whipple — produced the first photograph of a star when they made a daguerreotype of Vega (also known as Alpha Lyrae).

Blocker hates Native Americans, as is made clear from his closed - off face — as distant as a figure in a daguerreotype — and his grim reminiscences of surviving and committing atrocities during the Indian Wars.

The center's collection of more than 150,000 works includes daguerreotypes, gelatin silver and digital chromogenic prints, and a host of American and European documentary photography from 1930 to 1960.

The collection has grown to represent the full historical range of the medium, including early daguerreotypes, anonymous stereoviews, and cartes de visite; gelatin silver prints by Walker Evans, Robert Frank, and Ansel Adams; Kenneth Snelson's expansive panorama; landscapes by Carleton Watkins; photograms by Man Ray and Lotte Jacobi; and works by a range of contemporary American photographers, such as Robert Mapplethorpe, Cindy Sherman, and Andy Warhol (Polaroids).

Chuck Close, American, born 1940, Kara, 2007, daguerreotype, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Alfred H. Moses and Fern M. Schad Fund © Chuck Close, courtesy Pace Gallery

The first exhibition to focus exclusively on photographs made in the eastern half of the United States during the 19th century, East of the Mississippi: Nineteenth - Century American Landscape Photography showcases some 175 works — from daguerreotypes and stereographs to albumen prints and cyanotypes — as well as several photographers whose efforts have often gone unheralded.

National Portrait Gallery presents The Meade Brothers: Pioneers in American Photography in the museum's gallery dedicated to daguerreotypes June 14 through June 1, 2014.

Contemporary works featured include Barbara Kasten's Site 16: Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC, cibachrome print, 1987 ($ 6,000 to $ 9,000); Philip - Lorca DiCorcia's Untitled (Strip Club), chromogenic print, 1980s ($ 5,000 to $ 7,500); Tracey Moffatt's Beauty (In Wine), chromogenic print, 1994 ($ 5,000 to $ 7,500) and Adam Fuss's Butterfly daguerreotype from the artist's My Ghost series, 2000 ($ 10,000 to $ 15,000).

ICP's collection includes over 150,000 works with daguerreotypes, gelatin silver and digital chromogenic prints, and a host of American and European documentary photography from 1930 to 1960, among the collection.

American history can be traced with daguerreotypes, and other fine art photography from early photographers such as Timothy O'Sullivan and Carleton Watkins.