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Adding to the Mix 8: William H. Mumler's "Mrs. W. H. Mumler, Clairvoyant Physician" (1870s) is a 2014-15 exhibit at the Ackland Art Museum which says: "The carte-de-visite advertises the clairvoyant and healing abilities of Mumler's wife and assistant, Hannah. The caption claims that she is shown with her "controlling spirit," Declaration of Independence signer and Continental Congress attendee Dr. Benjamin Rush. Aside from demonstrating the technological innovations that early photography could utilize for image manipulation, this work also suggests the cultural milieu that allowed the wider Spiritualist religious movement to thrive: a mourning, war-torn, postbellum American population needing and seeking healing." Accessed 2/17

Antebellum Portraits by Mathew Brady is a 2017 exhibit at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery which says: "When a new photographic medium - the ambrotype - began to eclipse the daguerreotype in the mid-1850s, Brady adapted, creating some of the most beautiful ambrotype portraits ever produced. As the decade drew to a close, Brady's studio remained in the vanguard of photographic innovation, producing handsome, salted-paper print portraits from glass negatives." Also see press release Accessed 8/17

Bea Nettles: Harvest of Memory is a 2020 exhibit at the Krannert Art Museumwhich says: "Bea Nettles explores the narrative potential of photography through constructed images often made with alternative photographic processes." Also see the website of the artist. Accessed 3/21

Full Color Depression: First Kodachromes from America's Heartland is a 2011-12 exhibit at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery which says: "Organized by Bruce Jackson (SUNY Distinguished Professor and UB James Agee Professor of American Culture), with Albright-Knox Curator for the Collection Holly E. Hughes, this exhibition will feature a selection of rarely seen color photographs from the Library of Congress's Farm Security Administration (FSA) photography collection." Accessed 3/17

Holly Roberts: 33 Years is a 2018 exhibit at the Griffin Museum of Photography which says: "Her work has continued to evolve, but she has reversed her original process of heavily overpainting the black and white silver print. She now works on top of a painted surface, developing a narrative scene with collaged photographic elements." Also see artist'swebsite. Accessed 12/18

Lynda Frese: Holy Memories & Earthly Delights is a 2018 exhibit at the Hilliard Museum Which says: "The photographs on display range in technique from digital composites to silver-gelatin processes that incorporate a variety of toners affecting color including copper, selenium and vanadium." Accessed 3/18

Marian Roth: On Bended Light is a 2017 exhibit at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum which says: "Through collaged color positives, hand-coated emulsion negatives, lithographed figures, digital prints of the creative process itself, or rough layerings of paint, we can always see Roth at work. Whether from her Provincetown studio or inside one of the experimental cameras she has built and inhabited, Roth's work, ultimately, shows the artist engaged in the most heroic of efforts: to bend light, to slow time and to exist a bit longer." Also see 8/13/14 articlein Provincetown Magazine. Accessed 6/17

Peter Olson: Photo Ceramica is a 2017 exhibit at theAmerican Museum of Ceramic Art which says: " Olson's photographs are printed, repeated, and collaged to encase each ceramic piece. His motifs vary in scale creating a rhythm as they wrap around and across each artwork. When fired, the prints burn away leaving permanent, rusty red colored images from the iron oxide in the ink." Also see artist's website. Accessed 4/17

Photographing Nature's Cathedrals: Carleton E. Watkins, Eadweard Muybridge, and H. H. Bennett is a 2018 exhibit at the Milwaukee Art Museum which says: "Photographing Nature's Cathedrals presents American landscape photographs by three nineteenth-century artists who used mammoth plate prints, panoramas, and stereographs - the cutting-edge photographic technology of their time - to capture the natural wonders of the country. The photographs on view helped create the myth of the Edenic American West, attracted tourists to the unusual formations in the Driftless region of Wisconsin, and inspired the creation of Yosemite National Park." Also see press release. Accessed 6/18

Reciprocity: Handmade Cameras and Photographs by Cedric Chatterley is a 2016 exhibit at the Eide-Dalrymple Gallery which says: "Sculptural handmade cameras and photographs by Sioux Falls artist Cedric Chatterley are featured in this exhibition." Also see collection guide from Duke University Libraries. Accessed 12/18

Shadows and Traces: The Photography of John Reuter is a 2019 exhibit at the Griffin Museum of Photography which says: "The SX-70 work, which deconstructed the film packet to introduce painted and collage elements was the first major body of work he created with Polaroid materials. Rendered obsolete by technical changes to the SX-70 film this work remains a favorite of the artist." Accessed 3/19

Shift: Contemporary Photography Exhibition is a 2013 exhibit at the Giertz Gallery, Parkland College which says: "Shift reveals the experimental and exploratory spirit of today's photographers, whose use of modern photography processes and related technologies allow audiences to glimpse the world of familiar objects in startling new ways, according to Shaw, an associate professor in photography/video at Parkland." Accessed 12/18

Source to Sea: Ansley West Rivers is a 2019 exhibit at the Telfair Museums which says: "Her struggle to depict the complicated waterscapes has inspired new photographic processes with her large format camera: aiming for a subjective intimacy rather than documentary outcome, she creates multiple compositions on each negative plate by shooting several exposures onto each frame with the help of masking tools that are placed in front of the lens, avoiding double exposures and allowing for all imagery to be made in- camera rather than in post-production." Also see artist's website Accessed 9/19

Submerged in the Sublime: The Landscape Photography of Kim Keever is a 2019 exhibit at the Figge Art Museum which says: "Using his engineering background in fluid dynamics, Kim Keever takes photographs of compositions he creates using various paints and inks added to the water inside a 200-gallon tank to produce compelling atmospheric effects. Through the combination of handmade diorama elements, carefully orchestrated lighting, and the uncontrollable effects created by paints dissipating in the water, a bizarre landscape appears in front of Kim Keever's lens." Also see artist's website Accessed 10/19

Victor Shanchuk, Chemical Lightis a 2019 exhibit at the Burchfield - Penney Art Center which says: "Trained as a commercial artist and illustrator in the late 1950s, he later turned to photography as his primary tool. Dedicated, prolific and largely under-recognized, his approach often stretches the limits of photography by using chemicals and optics in experimental and unconventional ways." Accessed 7/19

Voice of the Woods - Koichiro Kurita is a 2017 exhibit at the Griffin Museum of Photographywhich says: "Kurita has chosen to work with Calotype, an early photographic process, invented by William Henry Fox Talbot in 1841, in which a paper negative is produced and then used to make a positive contact print in sunlight. The Calotype emulsion requires processing just before exposure and development and must be done on location. This process, which preceded the glass plate and subsequent film technologies, is a slow process and its unique beauty is closely aligned to the nature of paper. Once the negatives are created they are placed against albumen or salted paper print, and contact printed with the sun." Also see artist's website. Accessed 5/17

Walden: Four Views by Abelardo Morellis a 2017 exhibit at the Concord Museumwhich says: "Guided and inspired by Thoreau's journals and his seminal work Walden, Abelardo Morell has made new panoramic photographic works that suggest fresh new angles from which to look at Walden Pond." Accessed 3/17

William Wegman: Instant Miami is a 2018 exhibit at the Lafayette College Galleries which says: "William Wegman was invited by the University of Miami's Lowe Art Museum to visit Miami in 1984 and take in the city through the eyes of an artist, with an agreement to show the resulting work at the Lowe later that year." Also see artist's website and September 21, 2018 article in Lafayette College's newspaper. Accessed 10/18

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