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The Earliest Surviving Images of the White House and a Sitting U.S. President, Taken at the Start of the Mexican-American War by “the American Daguerre”

The Earliest Surviving Images of the White House and a Sitting U.S. President, Taken at the Start of the Mexican-American War by “the American Daguerre”

The images taken by daguerreotypist and Welsh immigrant John Plumbe, Jr. open a window onto a pivotal time in American history ...
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Portraits and Dreams: Snapshots of Appalachian Children in Kentucky c. 1975

Portraits and Dreams: Snapshots of Appalachian Children in Kentucky c. 1975

Wendy Ewald gave children cameras and the tools to make photographs of their dreams, fears, desires and worlds ...
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Fabulous Photographs of Cruising Van Nuys Boulevard In 1972

Fabulous Photographs of Cruising Van Nuys Boulevard In 1972

Rick McCloskey's fabulous photographs of a vanished Californian youth culture ...
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People Spending An Evening in Carlisle’s Oldest Pub in 1975

People Spending An Evening in Carlisle’s Oldest Pub in 1975

In 1975 John J Brady was studying art at Carlisle college. He took a part-time job in the King's Head pub. And one day he took these pictures ...
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Portraits of Die Halbstarken, Swiss Rock ‘n’ Roll Rebel Teens from the 1960s and 70s

Portraits of Die Halbstarken, Swiss Rock ‘n’ Roll Rebel Teens from the 1960s and 70s

“Karlheinz Weinberger was from Switzerland??! You gotta be kidding me. I first thought! His photos ...
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Face Values: The Surreal and Disturbing Collage Portraits of John Stezaker

Face Values: The Surreal and Disturbing Collage Portraits of John Stezaker

For the past fifty years, Stezaker has been making some of the most arresting and disturbing collages from found photographs, postcards, book plates, and magazines. ...
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Falling In Love With Barcelona’s Romany People: Photographs of 1960s Montjuïc by Jacque Leonard

Falling In Love With Barcelona’s Romany People: Photographs of 1960s Montjuïc by Jacque Leonard

Jacques Léonard's cinematic photographs of Romany people living in the Barcelona hills ...
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John Cohen’s Portraits of Appalachian Folk Singers (and Bob Dylan) from the Early 1960s

John Cohen’s Portraits of Appalachian Folk Singers (and Bob Dylan) from the Early 1960s

Cohen “told stories and documented characters from the inside as a photographer and musician steeped in the history of American folk music.” ...
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How Augustus Washington, an African American Abolitionist and Daguerreotypist, Helped Establish Photography in West Africa

How Augustus Washington, an African American Abolitionist and Daguerreotypist, Helped Establish Photography in West Africa

The photographer’s sliding scale made portraiture widely accessible to a variety of people from different classes ...
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Portraits of Alice Liddell, the Original Alice in Wonderland, Taken by Lewis Carroll and Julia Margaret Cameron

Portraits of Alice Liddell, the Original Alice in Wonderland, Taken by Lewis Carroll and Julia Margaret Cameron

Yes, Virginia, there is an Alice—or there was, at any rate, though she did not go to Wonderland but boating on the Thames with her sisters Edith and Lorina, the Rev. Robinson Duckworth, and Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, known to readers around the world as Lewis Carroll. ...
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Buy Prints From Nudes to an Earthquake: The trail-blazing photography of Arnold Genthe

From Nudes to an Earthquake: The trail-blazing photography of Arnold Genthe

Like many other photographers at the time, Genthe documented everything. He was a portrait photographer, a photo-journalist, and an artist. ...
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Tokyo In Deep : Unseen Photographs by Issei Suda (1970s-80s)

Tokyo In Deep : Unseen Photographs by Issei Suda (1970s-80s)

A new book of her work features life in Tokyo and surrounding prefectures in the 1970s and '80s. ...
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