LIGHT SENSITIVE NOW OPEN / View a slideshow of the preview and opening for the exhibition, which includes over 100 works from domestic and international artists, from tiny
early daguerreotypes to large - scale contemporary color prints and videos, and is drawn from 12 public and private North Carolina collections.
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.
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).
We will present a wonderful mix of works, from rare
early daguerreotypes through to contemporary takes on these early techniques.
From
the earliest daguerreotypes through gelatin silver prints and contemporary digital images, Skinner handles a breadth of important historical and fine photography.
As I thought about what size and type of works would complement the clusters of collages, it occurred to me that I wanted to include large - format Polaroid's, framed in such a manner as to recall
the earliest daguerreotypes that were a direct influence to artists such as Courbet.
Not exact matches
Fuss's work is distinctive for its contemporary reinterpretation of photography's
earliest techniques, particularly the camera-less methods of the
daguerreotype and photogram.
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.
The exhibition will also look at the progression of portraiture, illustrating the medium's nearly immediate democratization through the use of
daguerreotypes, albumen prints, and other
early photo processes.
I began collecting
daguerreotypes and other
early photographs when I was 16.
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.
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.
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 collection.
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.
American history can be traced with
daguerreotypes, and other fine art photography from
early photographers such as Timothy O'Sullivan and Carleton Watkins.
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 collection.