Meet Photography Curator Merry Foresta
Plan now for a members-only program on June 20th. Join at the door to enjoy "Photography and Everyday Life in Nineteenth Century America."Merry Foresta, senior curator of photography, will discuss the impact of early photography in nineteenth century America. Do you have early photographs to share? Daguerreotypes? Tintypes? Cartes de visites? Bring them for an interactive audience discussion. The lecture will be held June 20, from 6:30 to 8:30 in the museum's main building at 8th and G Streets, N.W., in the Lecture Hall. For information, contact Julie Rizzo, membership coordinator, (202) 357-4836.
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Source: Elizabeth Prelinger. The Gilded Age: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum (New York and Washington, D.C.: Watson-Guptill Publications, in cooperation with the Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2000).
Pictured: Unidentified, active 19th century, The Grape-Vine Swing, ca. 1895, platinum print on paper mounted on paper, 8 1/4 x 6 1/4 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase from the Charles Isaacs Collection made possible in part by the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment.
Plan now for a members-only program on June 20th. Join at the door to enjoy "Photography and Everyday Life in Nineteenth Century America."Merry Foresta, senior curator of photography, will discuss the impact of early photography in nineteenth century America. Do you have early photographs to share? Daguerreotypes? Tintypes? Cartes de visites? Bring them for an interactive audience discussion. The lecture will be held June 20, from 6:30 to 8:30 in the museum's main building at 8th and G Streets, N.W., in the Lecture Hall. For information, contact Julie Rizzo, membership coordinator, (202) 357-4836.