Harvard University has transferred the controversial Zealy daguerreotypes — images of naked enslaved people in South Carolina — to the International African American Museum in Charleston.

Western Approach to the Acropolis, Athens, 1842. Purchase, Philippe de Montebello Fund, Mr. and Mrs. John A. Moran Gift, in memory of Louise Chisholm Moran, Joyce F. Menschel and Annette de la Renta ...

Harvard University does not have to hand over a set of 19th-century daguerreotypes, thought to be among the first photographs of enslaved people in America, to one of the subject’s ancestors, a ...

The earliest movie audiences shrieked in fear at film footage of an oncoming train. With what wonder did people greet the first daguerreotypes, unique, shimmering images engraved by daylight upon ...

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Harvard will continue to perpetuate its legacy of racism and white supremacy as long as it retains remnants of slavery and white supremacy. One timely example is Harvard’s fight to retain ownership of ...

Perhaps you’ve scrolled through the popular Tumblr, “My Daguerreotype Boyfriend,” subtitled “Where early photography meets extreme hotness.” The daguerreotype, which was invented in the 1830s and ...

A specific tarnishing pattern was first observed in 1992 in a large collection of daguerreotypes viewed under short-wave ultraviolet illumination. While daguerreotypes have been closely inspected ...

C. 1860 portrait of an unidentified pair of prospectors by an unknown photographer (collection of the Canadian Photography Institute. NGC, Ottawa) “Gold! Gold from the American River!” So cried the ...

Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey, “Western Approach to the Acropolis, Athens” (1842) courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art Monumental Journey is organized largely according to the route Girault ...