Historic American Photographic Processes (original) (raw)

Historic American Photographic Processes

Online information about American photography from sources other than Resource Library

(above: Timothy H. O'Sullivan,Admiral David Dixon Porter on the Deck of His Flagship the "Malver" After the Victory at Ft. Fisher, North Carolina, 1865, albumen silver, 9.7 x 7.6 inches, Getty Center. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)

Color! American Photography Transformed is a 2013-14 exhibit at the Amon Carter Museum which says: "Through seventy-five key works, _Color!_tells the fascinating tale of photographers' halting acceptance of color, revealing the diverse vibrancy informing their efforts to shape a creative language for its use, and explaining how the art world's acceptance of color photography over recent years has transformed the medium into today's dominant art form." Accessed 3/17

The Deception of Perception: Exploring Distortion and Ambiguity in Photography is a 2016-17 exhibit at Addison Gallery of American Art at Phillips Academywhich says: "Artists have the freedom to create works whose mysterious imagery evokes the paranormal and fantastical. They manipulate scale, color, perspective, and subject to transport the viewer outside of the real world and into the realm of imagination. As the photographs in this exhibition show, even photographers who by the nature of the medium must record what exists before their cameras can twist and shift reality into something seemingly supernatural." Accessed 2/17

Golden Prospects: California Gold Rushis a 2019 exhibit at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art which says: "Gold rush daguerreotypes provide an extraordinary glimpse into the transformation of the American West: the evolution of mining technology, the diversity of nationalities and races, the growth of cities and towns, and the people who participated in these activities -- while revealing a high level of technical and artistic accomplishment." Also see news release https://nelson-atkins.org/golden-prospects-california-gold-rush-daguerreotypes-open-nelson-atkins/ Also see 11/5/19 article in _Antiques and The Arts Weekl_y. Accessed 5/20

Michael Kolster: Take Me to the River is a 2019 exhibit at the Telfair Museums which says: "In the spirit of nineteenth-century photographers such as Louis Daguerre, Henry Fox Talbot, and Timothy O'Sullivan, the photographs on view are ambrotypes, unique glass-plate positives, made with the wet-plate collodion process in a portable darkroom Kolster sets up along the banks and overlooks of these rivers." Also see artist's website Accessed 1/20

Painted Tintypes: Photography for the People is a 2023 exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston which says: "Tintypes -- or ferrotypes -- were first introduced in the US in the 1850s. Made by printing photographic images onto sheets of thin metal, they were inexpensive to produce, offering an affordable alternative to painted portraits. Often they were hand painted by women using oils, watercolors, and dry pigments. Each one was unique -- a product of the makers exploring their creative potential. Most of the tintypes were housed in decorative frames, some of which are remarkably inventive in their own right. By 1860 tintypes proliferated through all levels of society, becoming an important form of remembrance of sons fighting in the Civil War and families moving westward." Accessed 9/23

The Polaroid Project: At the Intersection of Art and Technology is a 2017 exhibit at the Amon Carter Museum which says: "The exhibition, which makes its U.S. debut at the Amon Carter, highlights the wide-ranging and often surprising uses of Polaroid materials through more than 150 images, including works by such heralded artists as Ellen Carey (b. 1952), Chuck Close (b. 1940), Marie Cosindas (b. 1925), Barbara Crane (b. 1928), David Hockney (b. 1937), Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) and Andy Warhol (1928-1987)." Accessed 8/17

The Polaroid Years: Instant Photography and Experimentation was a 2013 exhibit at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center which says: "The exhibit is the first of its kind since the founding of the Polaroid Corporation by scientist and inventor Edwin H. Land some 75 years ago, and will highlight milestones in Polaroid's history. That history is bittersweet, in view of the fact that Polaroid stopped production of analog instant film in 2008." Accessed 1/17

PROOF: Photography in the Era of the Contact Sheet is a 2020 exhibit at the Cleveland Museum of Art which says: "For much of the 20th century, contact sheets (also called proof sheets) were vital to the practice of photography. The rising popularity of roll film encouraged more and more exposures; the best frame would be chosen later. The photographer first saw positive images on the contact sheet, which was marked up for printing and served as a lasting reference." Accessed 11/20

ReVIEWing the 35mm slide is a 2018 exhibit at the Lafayette College Galleries which says: "With slides incorporated into their medium, the artists featured in ReVIEWing the 35mm Slide revive these once-powerful recorders of art, memory, and time, transforming the worlds contained within their 2-inch x 2-inch cardboard or plastic frames." Accessed 2/18

Salt and Silver, Early Photography, 1840-1860 is a 2018 exhibit at the Ruth Chandler Williamson gallery of Scripps College which says: "Salt and Silver presents more than 60 salted paper prints by renowned photographic pioneers such as William Henry Fox Talbot and the studio of Mathew Brady. Fragile and fewer in number than the metal daguerreotypes and tintypes predominant during this era, salted paper prints offer a glimpse into the early world of photography, as well as previously unseen landscapes." Accessed 11/20

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