1896 Washington Salon and Art Photographic Exhibition
- http://americanhistory.si.edu/1896/index.htm
- Three prestigious Washington, D.C. organizations played a major role in the establishment and acceptance of art photography in America. The Camera Club of the Capital Bicycle Club sponsored the 1896 Washington Salon and Art Photographic Exhibition. The Cosmos Club provided the exhibit space. And fifty of the salon's images were purchased to expand the Smithsonian Institution's national collection. National Museum of American History.
American Photographs: The First Century
- http://nmaa-ryder.si.edu/collections/exhibits/helios/amerphotos.html
- Presents a wide-ranging selection of photographs from the Smithsonian American Art Museum collection, including Civil War images by George Barnard and the Mathew Brady Studio, spectacular western landscapes by Timothy O'Sullivan and William Henry Jackson, as well as Pictorialist scenes by Clarence White and Gertrude Kasebier, from approximately 1839 to 1939.
Concerning the Spiritual in Photography
- http://www.bu.edu/prc/spirit.htm
- Approaching photography and photographer literally as a "medium," this exhibition considers how historical and present-day practitioners utilize and reference intrinsic mechanics of light-sensitive media to achieve spiritual allusions and illusions. Photographic Resource Center at Boston University.
Heavens Above
- http://www.nypl.org/research/sibl/trouvelot/
- An online exhibit from the New York Public Library that compares the 19th-century chromolithographs of astronomical observations made by artist/astronomer Etienne Trouvelot with comparable images photographed by NASA as part of its space program.
Recollecting a Culture: Selections from the Fotokino Archive
- http://www.bu.edu/prc/fotokino/index.htm
- Recollecting a Culture is a study of the political and economic pressures on the visual arts of the German Democratic Republic (GDR). It draws from the Fotokino Archive, comprised of approximately 14,000 prints and several thousand negatives, which was accessioned by the Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg Halle, Germany, following reunification. Photographic Resource Center at Boston University.
Urban Life Through Two Lenses
- http://www.mccord-museum.qc.ca/en/
- The exhibition represents multiple approaches to history, material culture and time. Photographs by William Notman (1826-1891), re-visited and re-photographed by contemporary photographer Andrzej Maciejewski, with separate historical, photographic, and museological commentary. McCord Museum of Canadian History. [Flash and QuickTime required]
