The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery announces two exhibitions of early American photography to premiere July 1 alongside the reinstallation of “Out of Many: Portraits from 1600 to 1900” in the ...
In this new series, Remaking History, academics take a look at the ways they are recreating historical practices, and how this impacts their research today. Cased daguerreotypes are among the oldest ...
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The oldest surviving American photograph wasn’t taken with a camera
The oldest known American photograph was taken in Philadelphia in 1839 ...
EDITOR’S NOTE: This article was originally published by The Art Newspaper, an editorial partner of CNN Style. The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery (NPG) in Washington, DC, has acquired the ...
The invention of photography must have seemed miraculous. Imagine: Point a funny-looking box at something, just wait a bit, and then you had an exactingly — no, spookily — lifelike image. Photography ...
The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery has snagged the first known portrait of an American First Lady, buying the daguerreotype of Dolley Madison in its original leather case at Sotheby’s for ...
George Clark, ambrotype campaign pin of Abraham Lincoln after a portrait by Mathew B. Brady (1860) (all images courtesy the National Portrait Gallery) Daguerreotypes were the original means by which ...
(Left) Unidentified artist, Untitled (family, painted backdrop), undated, tintype. Unidentified artist, Untitled (pin, woman in hat), undated, celluloid in metal setting. Smithsonian American Art ...
A rare daguerreotype recently identified as a portrait of George Boyer Vashon, the namesake of St. Louis' Vashon High School ...
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