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Early Photograph Highlights Tour
Cleveland Cleveland, ca. 1842-1843
Louis-Auguste Bisson (French, 1814-1876)
Daguerreotype
© The Cleveland Museum of Art
Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund 1991.38

Articles of Glass Articles of Glass, 1843
William Henry Fox Talbot (British, 1800-1877)
Salted paper print from calotype negative
© The Cleveland Museum of Art
Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1992.121


Temple of Ramesses II Large Speos - View taken from the Sand Slope (Temple of Ramesses II), Abu Simbel (Abou-Sembil. Grand spèos - vue prise de la coulée de sables), 1851-52 (printed 1853-54)
Félix Teynard (French, 1817-1892).
Salted paper print from calotype negative
from Égypte et Nubie, sites et monuments les plus intéressants pour l'étude de l'art et de l'histoire, deuxième partie, pl. 153
© The Cleveland Museum of Art
Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1992.234


Alexandre Dumas père Alexandre Dumas père (1802-1870), 1855
Nadar [Gaspard-Félix Tournachon] (French, 1820-1910)
Salted paper print from wet collodion negative
© The Cleveland Museum of Art
John L. Severance Fund 1983.198


Church at Auvers Church at Auvers (Église d'Auvers), 1855
Édouard Baldus (French, b. Prussia, 1813-1889)
Salted paper print from waxed paper negative
© The Cleveland Museum of Art
Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1992.120


Bridal Veil, Yosemite Bridal Veil, Yosemite, ca. 1865-66
Carleton E. Watkins (American, 1829-1916)
Albumen print from wet collodion negative
© The Cleveland Museum of Art
Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1992.12


Currecanti Needle Currecanti Needle, Black Cañon of the Gunnison, before 1880
William Henry Jackson (American, 1843-1942)
Albumen print
© The Cleveland Museum of Art
Leonard C. Hanna Jr., Fund 1985.45


Hell's Half Acre Hell's Half Acre, Prismatic Springs, late 1880s
Frank Jay Haynes (American, 1853-1921)
Albumen print from glass negative
© The Cleveland Museum of Art
Edwin R. and Harriet Pelton Perkins Memorial Fund 1992.242


Rodin - The Thinker Rodin - The Thinker (Rodin - Le Penseur), 1902
Edward Steichen (American, b. Luxembourg, 1879-1973)
Carbon print, toned
© The Cleveland Museum of Art
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Mann 1989.399


The Arbor The Arbor (Julia Hall McCune), 1906
Clarence H. White (American, 1871-1925)
Platinum print
© The Cleveland Museum of Art
Gift of John Flory, Elizabeth Flory Kelly, and Phoebe Flory 1980.159



For more information on photography visit our archived exhibition Legacy of Light. Includes a glossary of technical terms and biographies of artists.

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