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American Museum Of Photography
1. “A museum without walls, for an art without boundaries.”
-Wm. B. Becker, Director
2. Virtual presence only, no physical building
Focus is mainly on older photographs and techniques
No digital images
3. Current exhibitions at the museum:
Masterworks of Photography - 3 galleries of Talbot to
Ansel Adams
Pulp Pix: Photography Noir - staged images that create a
murder mystery
Photography as a Fine Arf! - canine photographs
Dageurreotypes of Southworth & Hawes
At Ease - informal portraits from the beginning of
Photography
Small Worlds - the art of the Carte de Visite
Of Bricks & Light – architectural photography
4. New Exhibitions:
Autochromes – celebrating 100 years of color
photography
An Eye for the World – photographs by Shotaro
Shimomura, 1934-35
A More Perfect World – photomontages by Scott Mutter
The Face of Slavery
Cross-Cultural America
5. “Photography was born pure. In the beginning, there was the daguerreotype.
Each daguerreotype was made individually in the camera. No negative was
used. Since photography was so new, and seemed so miraculous,
daguerreotypes were prized for their perfect accuracy in recording a scene or
making a portrait. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes called photography quot;the mirror
with a memory.quot; Why would anyone try to improve upon such perfection?”
Adding color to daguerreotypes
Adding backdrops
Multiple exposure portraits
Photomontages
10. The first ghosts in photographs were the result of accidents. During a long exposure--
such as those required in photography's infancy--a person who stood still would register
as clearly as a building. But a person who moved out of camera range after only a portion
of the exposure was completed would instead appear as a see-through blur. It happened
with the lamplighter in this detail from a photograph by the London Stereoscopic
Company.
11. But then, photographers started doing it on purpose: