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The camera went along for the ride, often in the hands of one of Mathew B. Brady’s and Alexander Gardner’s well-trained field photographers such as Timothy H. O’Sullivan (1840–1882) (1986.1054.19).
- Devil's Canyon, Geysers, Looking Down
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- Multnomah Falls Cascade, Columbia River
The American Wing Ancient Near Eastern Art Arms and Armor...
- View From The Sentinel Dome, Yosemite
Carleton Watkins made his name with views of Yosemite...
- Strait of Carquennes, From South Vallejo
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- Tantalus Cañon, Utah
The American Wing Ancient Near Eastern Art Arms and Armor...
- The Hudson River School
The Hudson River School was America’s first true artistic...
- President Lincoln
“A complete list of all United States presidents in...
- Great Plains Indians Musical Instruments
Edward S. Curtis, the famed early twentieth-century...
- Devil's Canyon, Geysers, Looking Down
When photography began in 1839, cameras began accompanying explorers on their travels. However, at this time, technology had not yet reached a point where the images could be used in publications. Instead, skilled illustrators were required to translate these early images.
Mar 7, 2018 · A new exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles looks at the complex — and sometimes even illicit — history of photography in the United States.
- The Pioneers
- The Emergence of Photography as Art
- Conclusion
Three individuals were instrumental in the innovations in light-sensitive media that led up to photography as we know it. They are Louis Daguerre, William Henry Fox Talbot and Frederick Scott Archer. Not only did they make critical breakthroughs, but they made photographs with their processes.
Now that negatives and prints could be more easily made, photography spread across the globe. While the popular wisdom about photography was that it was not a suitable medium for art, other pioneers disagreed. Tree genres emerged – portraiture, landscapes and street photography – that can trace their origins back to this time period.
The first 20 years of photography were filled with innovation. It required a deep knowledge of chemistry to develop the processes. Likewise, it took a deep knowledge of chemistry to prepare the medium, capture the image and develop it. Many different approaches were tried, most of them passing into memory. The important result from this period is t...
Mar 5, 2024 · Pioneering photographers traveled far and wide, capturing portraits of leading local citizens, natural landscapes, engineering feats, expeditions into unchartered areas, and documenting important moments from the American Civil War.
Jun 28, 2013 · “A Democracy of Images,” open today at the American Art Museum, features 113 images that span the history of American photography, including William Eggleston’s Tricycle (Memphis), c. 1975. All...
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The daguerreotype process, employing a polished silver-plated sheet of copper, was the dominant form of photography for the first twenty years of picture making in the United States.
