In 1840, photography was both the runt of the fine art world and its greatest threat. In 1840, ... Early photography, whose exposure times could be measured in minutes or even hours for a single ...

One of the first pictures ever taken of the moon by Dr. J. W. Draper of New York, 1840. J. W. ... (1811-1882) was an American scientist, philosopher, physician, chemist, historian and photographer.

A new exhibition of more than 200 photographs charts 300 years of image-making in the US, showing how the country's history and photography have run in parallel. In 1840, using a self-made copper ...

The Idea of Still Life in Photography 1840 - 1985 150 Photographs from the Siegert Collection Since the early 1970s, Dietmar Siegert, a film director and producer in Munich, has been collecting ...

Salt and Silver: Early Photography 1840-1860 ★★★★ We live in a vast exhibition of Victorian sculpture. The ambitions of the period, its imperial grandeur and moral instruction mark our ...

Another week, another photography show about death. It’s not officially about death, mind you; it’s officially about the years 1840 to 1860, when photographers made their images on paper ...