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Making Over Early Photographs with Color
“First, ever so lightly, I take a little flesh-colored pigment and add a bit of color to his face,” said Luther Gerlach as he glided his brush over an old photograph of a boy clutching a hat. “Then...
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A Love Story Told in Pictures
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, subjects of a new exhibition at the Getty Center, were madly in love with each other…and with the camera Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, 1854, Roger Fenton (British,...
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Skeletons Carousing in Hell
Stereographs of red-eyed skeletons are a 19th-century hoot—and clever political satire Each October we become accustomed to seeing skeletons in unexpected places: on neighbors’ lawns, in the seasonal...
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Opposites Attract
For the world’s earliest photographers, the negative—not the resulting positive—was the true art form Conservator Sarah Freeman demonstrates a waxed paper negative (South porch, central portal, left...
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