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Photography at the Bauhaus

October 1, 2004

By Department of Photographs

Just as traditional media and materials were being subjected to intense reappraisal at the Bauhaus, Moholy-Nagy advocated unlimited experimentation with the photographic process.
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New Vision Photography

October 1, 2004

By Department of Photographs

Photography’s long-acknowledged power to mirror the face of the world was by no means abandoned, but in the 1920s and ’30s a host of unconventional forms and techniques suddenly flourished.
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Historical Photographs: Windows into the Past

April 11, 2013

By Genevieve

Teen Advisory Group Member Genevieve considers the role the photographs play in history and discusses Timothy H. O'Sullivan's photograph A Harvest for Death, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, currently on view in the exhibition Photography and the American Civil War.
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Photography and Surrealism

October 1, 2004

By Department of Photographs

The use of such procedures as double exposure, combination printing, montage, and solarization dramatically evoked the union of dream and reality. Other photographers used techniques such as rotation or distortion to render their images uncanny.
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Early Documentary Photography

October 1, 2004

By Department of Photographs

Photographers used its growing influence to expose society’s evils, which the prosperous, self-indulgent Belle Époque chose to ignore: the degrading conditions of workers in big-city slums, the barbarism of child labor, the terrorism of lynching, the devastation of war.
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The Structure of Photographic Metaphors

October 1, 2004

By Lisa Hostetler

While postwar street photographers on the East Coast were transforming documentary photography into a subjective experience of the contemporary world, photographers in other parts of the country were expanding the f/64 tradition to accommodate their own personal creative spirit.
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Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946) and American Photography

October 1, 2004

By Lisa Hostetler

Alfred Stieglitz returned to New York in 1890 determined to prove that photography was a medium as capable of artistic expression as painting or sculpture.
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Digitizing the Libraries' Collections: Pictorialist Photography Exhibition Catalogues, 1891–1914

June 7, 2013

By Dan Lipcan and Malcolm Daniel

Malcolm Daniel, senior curator in the Department of Photographs, offers an explanation of the importance and context of the newly digitized Pictorialist Photography exhibition catalogues.
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Understanding Photographic Processes

March 2, 2011

By Silvia A. Centeno

As a chemist in the Museum's Department of Scientific Research, I work closely with Anna Vila-Espuña, also in the Department of Scientific Research, and Nora Kennedy, in Photograph Conservation, on collaborations with Met curators to increase our understanding of methods and materials used to create paintings, works of art on paper, and photographs.
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Museum of Photography

Dayanita Singh (Indian, born New Delhi, 1961)

Date: 2013
Accession Number: 2018.227.1a–cc–.87

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The Guiding Light

Harold Ancart (Belgian, born Brussels 1980)

Date: 2021
Accession Number: 2023.559

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[Newhaven Fishwives]

Hill and Adamson (British, active 1843–1848)

Date: ca. 1845
Accession Number: 1997.382.19

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Lemuel Shaw

Southworth and Hawes (American, active 1843–1863)

Date: ca. 1850
Accession Number: 38.34

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Al Mussawar, no. 1254, Special issue, “Nefertiti Speaks”

Cover photography by Armand

Date: October 22, 1948
Accession Number: RCE.037

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From the Heart of the Mountain Anchored the Path of Unknowing

Heidi Lau (born Oakland, California, 1987)

Date: 2023
Accession Number: 2024.66a–h

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[Disabled Union Soldiers Posed in Aid of the U.S. Sanitary Commission at the New York Metropolitan Fair]

J. Gurney & Son (Active 1860–1874)

Date: April 1864
Accession Number: 2019.528

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Squaring: 2; 4; 16; 256; 65,536

Jennifer Bartlett (American, Long Beach, California 1941–2022 Amagansett, New York)

Date: 1973–74
Accession Number: 2018.102a–gg

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[Alphonse Bertillon Demonstrating Identity Portrait Technique in a Skylit Photography Studio]

Alphonse Bertillon (French, 1853–1914)

Date: ca. 1893
Accession Number: 2016.8

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Silk Fragment with Wavy-vine Pattern on Green Ground

Date: 16th century
Accession Number: 52.20.23a, b