Rare 19th and 20th Сentury Photography Auction, featuring six
daguerreotypes by Joseph - Philibert Girault de Prangey
The exhibition, curated by Jerry Spagnoli, examines the contemporary use of those techniques and includes
daguerreotypes by Takashi Arai, Adam Fuss, and Craig Tuffin; Stephen Berkman's albumen prints from wet - collodion negatives; Dan Estabrook's calotypes and salt prints; ambrotypes by Luther Gerlach, Craig Tuffin, and Matthias Olmeta; Vera Lutter's camera obscura photography; Sally Mann's positives; and «photogenic drawings» by France Scully Osterman & Mark Osterman.
Not exact matches
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.»
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.
Curated
by Jerry Spagnoli, a leading practitioner of the
daguerreotype, this beguiling exhibition presents works
by contemporary artists mining photography's rich technological and material history.
He took up photography in 1843 using the
daguerreotype, and later in the mid 1850s, became one of the first French photographers to use the calotype, a technique on paper developed in England
by Fox Talbot, and introducing the principle of positive and negative.
Over the past twenty years, Fuss has created a distinctive style
by reinterpreting some of photography's earliest techniques, particularly the camera-less methods of the
daguerreotype and photogram.
By appropriating and re-presenting nineteenth - century
daguerreotypes that objectify South Carolina slaves, they acknowledged the history of oppression and gave these images a new voice of their own.
CHUCK CLOSE PHOTOGRAPHS A touring exhibition organized
by the Parrish Museum of more than 90 photographs, from Polaroids to
daguerreotypes.
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).
Young America: The
Daguerreotypes of Southworth and Hawes opens, curated
by Grant Romer, Brian Wallis, Erin Barnett, and Kristen Lubben; a catalog is published
by Steidl.
Samaras has been the subject of several portraits
by Chuck Close, in media including painting,
daguerreotype, and tapestry.
A survey of Chuck Close's Polaroid and
daguerreotype nudes and Big Nude (1967), a 10 -
by - 21 foot painting never before publicly exhibited in New York
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.»
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.)
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.
Close also crosses artistic boundaries
by taking works from
daguerreotypes and presenting them in a variety of media including colossal tapestries and photogravures.
The Wichita Art Museum presents A Couple of Ways of Doing Something an exhibition, on view January 29 through April 15, 2012 will featuring arresting
daguerreotype portraiture as well as tapestries and photogravures created
by Chuck Close.
From an original
daguerreotype taken
by J. T. Zealy, 1850.