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What makes a photographic masterpiece? It might be a perfectly balanced still-life, bathed in natural light. It might be a stirring portrait or a captured moment of history or a sublime landscape. Great photographs can intrigue us, astound us, mystify us, move us.The photographs in this exhibition--all drawn from a private collection--share a special, intangible quality that sets them apart from the billions of other camera images taken over the last 168 years.
William
Henry Fox Talbot: The Footman. Unidentified
Photographer: The Telegrapher Daguerreotype,
circa 1853 Unidentified
Photographer: Uncle George &
Gus Daguerreotype,
circa 1853 Edward
Anthony: Broadway on a Rainy Day Albumen
stereoscopic photograph, 1860 Bisson
Freres: Glacier des Bossons Albumen
print, 1860 George
N. Barnard: Nashville From the
Capitol Albumen
print, 1865 David
B. Woodbury: Mrs. Henry's House Albumen
print, 1861
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