Sentences with phrase «daguerreotype portraits»

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.

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.

Examples include Thomas Lawrence's iconic 1815 portrait — the basis of the design of the British five pound note from 1971 to 1991 — and a daguerreotype portrait taken on Wellesley's 75th birthday, loaned from the current Duke of Wellington's own collection (until 7 June).

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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.

The only two - dimensional work in the exhibition is Close's Self - Portrait / Five Part (illustrated top), a tapestry based on daguerreotypes of the artist's head at various angles joined together to form a panoramic view.

Samaras has been the subject of several portraits by Chuck Close, in media including painting, daguerreotype, and tapestry.

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.

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).

In his recent work, Close has managed to reinvent a pictorial language famously based on photography by breaking down the narrowness of photographic restrictions (this is most evident in his tapestries — two self - portraits and seven of friends, including Ellen Gallagher, Philip Glass, Lyle Ashton Harris, Brad Pitt, Andres Serrano, Cindy Sherman, and Lorna Simpson — that are based on daguerreotypes or Polaroids and woven by the legendary Jacquard loom in Belgium.)

This Daguerreian Gallery exhibition will trace the trajectory of Brady's early career through portrait daguerreotypes, ambrotypes and salted - paper prints in the National Portrait Gallery's colportrait daguerreotypes, ambrotypes and salted - paper prints in the National Portrait Gallery's colPortrait Gallery's collection.

Mathew Brady, Juliet Brady and Mrs. Haggerty / Unidentified Artist / Mathew Brady Studio (active 1844 - 1894) / Quarter - plate daguerreotype, c. 1851 / National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

The exhibition will feature fifteen of Close's daguerreotypes alongside enlarged portraits of 20 leading contemporary artists such as Philip Glass and Cindy Sherman.

This Daguerreian Gallery exhibition traces the trajectory of Brady's early career through portrait daguerreotypes, ambrotypes and salted - paper prints in the National Portrait Gallery's colportrait daguerreotypes, ambrotypes and salted - paper prints in the National Portrait Gallery's colPortrait Gallery's collection.

Other notable lots included: a daguerreotype of a Shakespearean actor, ca. 1848, which sold for $ 3,712, compared with an estimate of $ 2,000 / 3,000; Peter Henry Emerson's platinum print titled Ricking the Reed, 1886, which sold for $ 3,125, compared with an estimate of $ 3,000 / 5,000; and Alfred Cheney Johnston's portrait of actress Fanny Brice, 1918, which sold on its low estimate for $ 2,500 (estimate: $ 2,500 / 3,500).