Sentences with phrase «daguerreotype photographs»

The most exciting episodes include Turner turning down an offer to sell his life's work for 100 thousand pounds (a princely sum in the mid-1800s), getting his daguerreotype photograph taken by a swell salesman, and flirting with a widowed boarding house owner (Marion Bailey), where he frequently stays as «Mr. Mallard.»

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

Daguerreotypes and black - and - white photographs record only variations in intensity; color photographs record variations in wavelengths too.

Vega was the first star to be photographed, exposed for 100 seconds with the daguerreotype process through a 15 - inch refractor at Harvard Observatory on the night of July 16 - 17, 1850.

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).

A Prophet's Tahar Rahim stars as an out - of - work nobody who answers an ad to become the assistant to a semi-retired fashion photographed (Olivier Gourmet) who lives in a creepy manor and is obsessed with taking life - sized daguerreotype photos of his strange and beautiful daughter (Constance Rousseau, whose nystagmus defines her character's otherworldliness).

Designed by David Kohn Architects, the centre will more than double the space devoted to photography in the museum and display a rotating selection of historic and contemporary photographs telling the story of the medium from the daguerreotype to the digital.

It includes 129 photographs spanning from 1968 to the present, ranging from black and white portraits to monumentally scaled composite Polaroids, to intimately scaled daguerreotypes.

CHUCK CLOSE PHOTOGRAPHS A touring exhibition organized by the Parrish Museum of more than 90 photographs, from Polaroids to daguPHOTOGRAPHS A touring exhibition organized by the Parrish Museum of more than 90 photographs, from Polaroids to daguphotographs, from Polaroids to daguerreotypes.

I began collecting daguerreotypes and other early photographs when I was 16.

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.

Her personal work includes gelatin silver prints, hand - colored silver prints, digital photographs, and most recently, the 19th century processes of daguerreotypes, tintypes and wet plate collodion negatives and positives (ambrotypes).

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.

Throughout his career, Chuck Close has expanded his contribution to portraiture through the mastery of such varied drawing and painting techniques as ink, graphite, pastel, watercolor, conté crayon, finger painting, and stamp - pad ink on paper; printmaking techniques, such as Mezzotint, etching, woodcuts, linocuts, and silkscreens; as well as handmade paper collage, Polaroid photographs, Daguerreotypes, and Jacquard tapestries.

The painter Paul de la Roche in 1839, perfectly expressed his shock in the «new» upon seeing the first photograph, a daguerreotype, by saying, «From today, painting is dead.»

The photographs not only reveal the shifting attitudes towards children and their representation, but also show the evolution of the photographic processes from early daguerreotypes to contemporary digital prints.

Ladies of the House features seven original photographs, which were digitally manipulated to recall nineteenth century photographs, such as daguerreotypes, tintypes, and ambrotypes.

Although the prisoner in this photograph remains anonymous, Danh restored a sense of dignity to him, reproducing the image as a one - of - a-kind daguerreotype and reframing the picture as a reverential memorial rather than a dispassionate record of inhumanity.

His work at the Getty included the exhibitions André Kertész: A Centennial Tribute (1994), Alfred Stieglitz: Seen and Unseen (1995 — 1996), Julia Margaret Cameron: The Creative Process (1996 — 1997), The Making of a Daguerreotype: Images and Artifacts (1998), Spirit into Matter: The Photographs of Edmund Teske (2004) and The Photographs of Frederick Sommer: A Centennial Tribute (2005).

Chuck Close Photographs, on view from March 20 through October 2, 2016 features 86 images from 1964 to the present and illustrates the full range of the artist's exploration of photography — from early black and white maquettes, to monumental composite Polaroids, to intimately scaled daguerreotypes and recent Polaroid nudes.

Out of the Dark Room: works from The David Kronn Collection comprises 165 photographs from the collection, which ranges in content from 19th - century Daguerreotypes to the 20th - century photography of Edward Weston and August Sander and works from award - winning contemporary photographers, such as the husband and wife team of Nicolai Howalt and Trine Søndergaard, and the Japanese photographer Asako Narahashi.

MOLAA explained the importance of photography to Frieda Kahlo this way: «Frida collected daguerreotypes and calling cards from the XIX century and kept photographs that she intervened upon — cutting things out from them, writing dedications on them and personalizing them as if they were paintings.»

The objects on view include rare daguerreotypes and vintage photographs, such as Roger Fenton's iconic The Valley of the Shadow of Death (1855) from the Crimean War and an early print of Joe Rosenthal's Old Glory Goes Up on Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima.

Other significant additions include a suite of 25 photographs from Lewis Baltz's seminal 1971 series The Tract House; a rare early self portrait by Sally Mann from 1976; Laurie Simmons» 1987 gelatin silver print, Walking Camera (Jimmy the Camera); Lorna Simpson's 1991 Coiffure, a triptych of gelatin silver prints and ten engraved plastic plaques; Chuck Close's daguerreotype portraits Cindy Sherman and Self - Portrait, both from 2000; and Hiroshi Sugimoto's Oscar Wilde (2000), all of which complement works by these artists already in the collection.

An exhibition of contemporary photographs using 19th - century photographic techniques and processes — daguerreotypes, photogenic drawings, calotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes, and camera obscuras — is currently on view at Howard Greenberg Gallery in New York.

The 19th - and 20th - century photographs from this collection ranged from post-mortem daguerreotype portraits to instant prints from the 1970s and 1980s of mourners posing alongside the deceased.

Patrick Ravines Optical and Surface Metrology and Photographs: Confocal and Interference Microscopy Applied to Daguerreotypes and Silver Gelatin Prints 2007

The Met's collection of photographs consists of 20,000 photographs, prints and daguerreotypes, organized around the Alfred Stieglitz (1864 - 1946), Edward Steichen (1879 - 1973), Walker Evans, Gilman Paper Company, Ford Motor Company and Rubel collections.

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The Met's department of photographic art contains 20,000 photographs, prints and daguerreotypes, organized around the Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, Walker Evans, and Ford Motor Company collections.