Room 502 Photography

 " When photography and film first appeared in the nineteenth century, they fascinated viewers with their ability to not only record but to reinvent reality.  These technologies reinvented the visual culture of the time, providing an alternative to traditional methods of image-making involving hand, pen and brush.

Cameras served a variety of functions: they were used as documentary tools, instruments of science,and aids to artists and artisans working in other media. And they allowed photographers to create remarkable works of art.  Upending earlier modes of information distribution, they exposed social concerns and facilitated the development of new narrative forms.  By reproducing movement in unprecedented ways, and making the familiar unfamiliar and the invisible visible, these lens-based techniques contributed to shifting conceptions of time and space in the modern era."

X Ray, Unknown

Auguste Adolphe Bertsch, Chestnut Tree Wood, Vertical Section 

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'Mrs. Duckworth', Julia Margaret Cameron, 1867

Alfred Stieglitz, A Dirigible, 1910

Interior NYC Subway 14th Street to 42nd Street, 1905, American Mutoscope & Biograph Company, Film

Eugene Estanave, Wire Loop, 1908

Early X Ray, Unknown

Aerial Incendiary Bombs, 1917, Unknown

Human Facial Expression, Adrien Tournachon, 1862 

Anna Atkins, Polypodium Phegopteris, 1853

The following are from: Frances Benjamin Johnston 1899-1900 'The Hampton Album'

Those photographs by one of america's first female photojournalists document the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute[ now Hampton University] founded after the Civil war to provide education and practical training to African Americans and Native Americans.

Edward Muybridge, Movement of the hand, beating time, 1887

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Maurice Loewy, and Pierre Henri Puiseux, Lunar Photograph, 1903

'Realistic Travels' 1918

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Charles Thurston Thompson series

Stills from Film:

'Lime Kiln Club Field Day', 1913, Edwin Middleton, T. Hayes Hunter, Klaw & Erlanger Biograph Co.  starring Bert Williams and the Darktown Follies stage company.