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In “Flashes of Brilliance,” Anika Burgess takes us back to the 19th century to showcase the artists and innovators who developed the revolutionary technology.
Museums are great places to escape to. That’s obvious. An antidote to the daily grind, to highways and traffic jams and to current affairs, they have air conditioning, clean bathrooms, cafes. You ...
Spain's wax museum of dermatology, once a treasured teaching tool for medical students, will be closing its doors. Founded in ...
Ball, a free man of color, opened a one-room photo studio in Cincinnati in 1845, but the business soon folded. He honed his ...
It is hoped the Perth plaques to David Octavius Hill and Jessie Mann - unveiled on June 29, will be joined by one to mark ...
Works from the Bank of America Collection” assembles 89 photographs, lithographs, sculptures and paintings by 39 artists to ...
A History of Photography” showcases Robert Mapplethorpe, Man Ray and other big names, but the important exhibition is so much ...
A new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery traces three different 1800s forms of photo-making: daguerreotypes, ...
An 1886 photo captures a daring leap of faith This photo was taken by H.H. Bennett, the 19th century photographer and historian who helped put Wisconsin Dells on the map.
Bennington Museum exhibit explores Nicholas Whitman's transition from photographer to conservator of 19th-century circus posters ...
A workshop organized jointly by the chemistry and art departments spotlights how chemical methods enabled the development of modern photography.
Other repeat-photography projects have re-created the work of 19th century photographers in the region, but none with the landscape locations as precisely described as Benecke’s.