Information and discussion on all aspects of British photographic history
Time: July 9, 2011 to October 30, 2011
Location: THE COLUMBUS MUSEUM
Street: 1251 WYNNTON ROAD
City/Town: COLUMBUS, GEORGIA 31906
Website or Map: http://www.columbusmuseum.com/
Phone: 706.748.2562
Event Type: exhibition
Organized By: THE COLUMBUS MUSEUM
Latest Activity: Jun 16, 2011
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Likenesses in the Latest Style explores the formative era of portrait photography through an assemblage of dozens of stunning original images. Emerging in the mid-nineteenth century simultaneously with a vibrant middle class that had the means and desire to capture the likenesses of loved ones for posterity, photography instantly transformed American culture. The great demand for high-quality, inexpensive photographic portraits drove rapid technological changes that also revolutionized the medium itself within the short span of a few decades.
Combining artistic skill and scientific expertise, historic portrait photographs were prized depictions of individual personalities rendered with cutting edge technology. Ranging from the straightforward poses of 1840s daguerreotypes to whimsical 1870s carte-de-visites, the photographs on display help illustrate the changes in photographic techniques during this critical period. Special sections of the exhibition will explain how and why studio portraits of the time were made, and highlight some of the work produced by the numerous local photographers of the era. Complementing the concurrent exhibition,Soldier Ambrotypes by Ellen Susan, a significant portion of the historic images will feature soldiers from the Civil War era, drawn from the holdings of noted collectors David Wynn Vaughan and George S. Whiteley IV.
Victoria and Albert Museum's photography collection
National Science and Media Museum
RPS Journal 1853-2012 online and searchable
Photographic History Research Centre, Leicester
Birkbeck History and Theory of Photography Research Centre
William Henry Fox Talbot Catalogue Raisonné
British Photography. The Hyman Collection
The Press Photo History Project Mapping the photo agencies and photographers of Fleet Street and the UK
The correspondence of William Henry Fox Talbot
Historic England Archive
UAL Photography and Photography and the Archive Research Centre
Royal Photographic Society's Historical Group
www.londonstereo.com London Stereoscopic Company / T. R. Williams
www.earlyphotography.co.uk British camera makers and companies
Fox Talbot Museum, Lacock.
National Portrait Gallery, London
http://www.freewebs.com/jb3d/
Alfred Seaman and the Photographic Convention
Frederick Scott Archer
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