Early Photos on Display at The University of Texas
The University of Texas in Austin is exhibiting 175 items from its Gernsheim collection, including the world's earliest-known photograph "from nature" by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce. (The qualification is due to the fact that Niépce is now believed to have made at least one photographic copy of a piece of artwork up to a year earlier.)
The collection was collected by Helmut and Alison Gernsheim from 1945 to 1963. The collection includes some 35,000 photographs from the 19th and 20th centuries, as well as books journals, and photographic equipment. It includes works by important 19th-century photographers, such as Lewis Carroll, Julia Margaret Cameron, Roger Fenton, Henry Peach Robinson.
The exhibit, titled "Discovering the Language of Photography," will be open to the public from now until January 2, 2011 at the Ransom Center on the UT campus in Austin. Hours are Tuesdays through Fridays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., with extended Thursday hours until 7 p.m. On Saturdays and Sundays the galleries are open from noon to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed on Mondays.
The collection was collected by Helmut and Alison Gernsheim from 1945 to 1963. The collection includes some 35,000 photographs from the 19th and 20th centuries, as well as books journals, and photographic equipment. It includes works by important 19th-century photographers, such as Lewis Carroll, Julia Margaret Cameron, Roger Fenton, Henry Peach Robinson.
The exhibit, titled "Discovering the Language of Photography," will be open to the public from now until January 2, 2011 at the Ransom Center on the UT campus in Austin. Hours are Tuesdays through Fridays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., with extended Thursday hours until 7 p.m. On Saturdays and Sundays the galleries are open from noon to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed on Mondays.
The first known photograph taken from life -
The view out of Niépce's window
Ran from September 7, 2010 - January 2, 2011
I wish I could have made it to this exhibit!
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