Heavens Above - 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 - 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.
Concerning the Spiritual in Photography - 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.
Museum of Modern Art Collection and Virtual Exhibitions - The Museum began to collect photographs in 1930 and established the Photography Department in 1940. Site links to MoMA's virtual group and one-person exhibitions, including Rudy Burkhardt, Andreas Gursky, Aleksandr Rodchenko, David Goldblatt, and Cindy Sherman.
IDEA Photographic | After Modernism - A contemporary view of history from the photography collections at the Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, Princeton University Art Museum, and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
American Photographs: The First Century - 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.
Between Home and Heaven: Contemporary American Landscape Photography - To reveal the truth within the landscape, photographers of the present day have had to find a way to mediate between the sometimes harsh realities of contemporary life and the edenic traditions of the genre -- between home and heaven. Featuring 90 works by 39 artists, along with illustrated essays by Merry Foresta, Stephen Jay Gould, and Karal Ann Marling.
Secrets of the Dark Chamber: The Art of the American Daguerreotype - A virtual exhibition of photographs, contemporary interpretations and historical texts, and Real Audio tours, from the photographic collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Exhibition curated by Merry Foresta.
Urban Life Through Two Lenses - 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]
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