National Portrait Gallery Opens Photographic Memory on November 14: Fifty Years of Photography, More Than 100 Works Including the Dolley Madison Daguerreotype
The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., will open Photographic Memory: Fifty Years of Photography at the National Portrait Gallery on November 14, marking the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of its photographs collection, which now accounts for nearly half of the museum's total holdings.
According to the gallery's exhibition announcement, the show encompasses more than one hundred works, from the daguerreian era to the digital age, exploring the evolution of photographic portraiture. Among the earliest works are the recently acquired quarter-plate daguerreotype of Dolley Madison by John Plumbe Jr., from about 1846; Alexander Gardner's original 'cracked-plate' portrait of Abraham Lincoln; Julia Margaret Cameron's image of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; and rare cabinet cards of Ida B. Wells-Barnett, by Sallie E. Garrity, and of Ko K'un-hua, by George K. Warren. Twentieth-century portraits include W.E.B. Du Bois, among others.
The gallery notes that photography has expanded its collection to include likenesses of people who shaped the nation's history but never posed for painted or sculpted portraits.
Source: GSM · USA (original Chinese edition)
Photo: 图：John Plumbe Jr. 约1846年为多莉·麦迪逊拍摄的银版照片，该作将在展览中展出。图片：John Plumbe Jr. 摄，公共领域（Wikimedia Commons）。Photo: The daguerreotype of Dolley Madison by John Plumbe Jr., c. 1846, to be featured in the exhibition. Credit: John Plumbe Jr., public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
