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Metropolitan Museum of Art
 
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Unidentified photographer / artist, 2012, Publicity for Faking it: Manipulated Photography before Photoshop (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 11, 2012-January 27, 2013), Publicity, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/49190
Juan Pedro Chabalgoity, 1875 (ca), [Photo Collage: Man with Broom and Dustpan], Carte de visite, albumen silver print, lithographs, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/95608
Linnaeus Tripe, 1858, January-March, The Outer Prakarum, or Corridor Around the Temple of the God Sundareshawara, Albumen silver print, from dry collodion on glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78036
Gustave Le Gray, 1856 (ca), Fontainebleau, chemin sablonneux montant, Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/67551
Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey, 1840s (ca), [Daguerreotype Plate Box], Storage, linden wood, plated iron, iron-gall ink, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/85452
Henry Fox Talbot, 1835 or 1839, [the Oriel Window, South Gallery, Lacock Abbey], Photogenic drawing negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/6303
Henri Le Secq, 1852, [Large Figures on the North Porch, Chartres Cathedral], Salted paper print from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/6312
Babayeva Studio, Russian (Russian, active 1890s), 1893, [Ivan Constantinovich Aivasovski], Albumen silver print. from glass negative, with inset oil painting, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78073
Hill & Adamson, 1843-1847, Edinburgh. Greyfriars' Churchyard, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69454
Auguste Mestral, 1852-1853, [Angel of the Passion, Sainte-Chapelle, Paris], Salted paper print from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/37303
Unknown artist (American School), 1850s, [Blind Man Wearing Dark Glasses], Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40526
Duchenne & Adrien Tournachon, 1854-1856 (taken) 1862 (print), Figure 57: Astonishment, stupefaction, amazement, [Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine, ou analyse électrophysiologique des passions], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79659
Richard Barton Hill, 1850s, [Part of the Exterior of the St. Paul's Cathedral, Calcutta], Albumen silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40373
Louis de Clercq, 1860 (or later), Ve Station. Jésus aidé par Simon de Cyrène. Une marque dans le mur indique seule cette station. La maison que l'on voit au fond est celle du mauvais riche, Albumen silver print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78143
Juan Pedro Chabalgoity, 1875 (ca), [Photo Collage: Man with Prosthetic Leg], Carte de visite, albumen silver print, lithographs, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/95622
Unidentified photographer / collagist, 1850s-1890s, Collaged portrait, [Album of collaged portraits], Albumen silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/95782
J.A. Whipple, 1850s (early), [Cornelius Conway Felton with His Hat and Coat], Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/6309
Julia Margaret Cameron, 1873, Mrs. Halford Vaugham, Freshwater, Albumen silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/77543
Charles Marville, 1858-1860, Cascade at the Mare aux biches (Does' Pond), Bois de Boulogne, Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/53886
Unknown Artist (American School), 1910 (ca), [Man with Dead Raccoons], Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40599
Walker Evans, 1973-1974, [Abandoned House], Instant Color print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/6379
, 1888, 9 August, Group on Petria, Lake Mahopac, Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/130454
Joseph Cundall, 1856 (ca), [Grenadier Guards Drummer], [Crimean Heroes (?)], Salted paper print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/73879
Adolphe Braun, 1865 (ca), Pheasant and Grouse, Carbon print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/126038
Duchenne & Adrien Tournachon, 1854-1856 (taken) 1862 (print), Figure 73: Head of Niobe, [Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine, ou analyse électrophysiologique des passions], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79642
Francis Frith, 1857 (ca, taken) 1870s (print), [Valley of the Kings, Thebes], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69120
William Anastasi, 1967, Nine Polaroid Portraits of a Mirror, Black-and-white instant prints and mirror, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/48200
Ashford Brothers, 1864 (ca), Upwards of Five Hundred Photographic Portraits of the Most Celebrated Personages of the Age, Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79721
Timothy H. O'Sullivan, 1867, Fissure Vent at Steamboat Springs, Nevada, [Photographs: Geological Explorations of the 40th Parallel, Clarence, King, Geologist in Charge], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40411
Malick Sidibé, 1976, Two Men, Gelatin silver print, in original frame of reverse-painted glass, tape, cardboard, string, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/61699
Auguste Mestral, 1851 (ca), [Sculpture of Virgin and Child, Notre Dame, Paris], Salted paper print from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/37302
William Langenheim, 1853-1855 (ca), William Langenheim, Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/92010
Félix Bonfils, 1870 (ca), Intérieur de la porte de Jaffa (détail), Albumen print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/115888
Maxime Du Camp, 1850 (taken) 1851-1855 (print), Nubie. Grand Temple D'Isis A Philoe. Muraille occidentale, Salted paper print (Blanquart-Évrard process) from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69375
Juan Pedro Chabalgoity, 1875 (ca), [Photo Collage: Woman with Pitchfork Aimed at Man], Carte de visite, albumen silver print, lithographs, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/95615
Jean Benyoumof, 1900-1910, Dakar-Mulatto (Senegal) [Dakar-Mulâtresse (Sénégal)], Postcard, photomechanical, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/61678
Unidentified photographer, 1855 (ca), [Studio Photographer at Work], Salted paper print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/95715
Hugh Welch Diamond, 1850-1858, Patient, Surrey County Lunatic Asylum, Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40552
Maxime Du Camp, 1850, 15 September, Hémicycle de l'enceinte des Temples, à Baâlbek [Hemicycle of the Enclosure of the Temples, Baalbek], [Egypte, Nubie, Syrie: Paysages et Monuments], Salted paper print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40398
Robert E. Peary (American, 1856-1920), 1893-1895, [Peary's Ship], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79743
Unidentified photographer / collagist, 1850s-1890s, Collaged portrait, [Album of collaged portraits], Albumen silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/95786
Walker Evans, 1933, Typical Town, Interior of Cuba, Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78165
Linnaeus Tripe, 1858, May-June, Elliot Marbles and Other Sculpture from the Central Museum Madras: Group 26, Albumen silver print, from waxed paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78040
Hill & Adamson, 1843-1847, Edinburgh. Greyfriars' Churchyard, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69452
Julien Vallou de Villeneuve, 1853 (ca), [Female nude, reclining, with arm raised (#1940)], Salted paper print from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/7727
Lewis Carroll, 1863, Irene MacDonald, Flo Rankin, and Mary MacDonald at Elm Lodge, Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40531
Duchenne & Adrien Tournachon, 1854-1856 (taken) 1862 (print), Figure 63: Expression of terror, [Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine, ou analyse électrophysiologique des passions], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79648
Linnaeus Tripe, 1855, September-October, Colossal Statue of Gautama Close to the North End of the Bridge, Amerapoora, Albumen silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/25999
E.J. Bellocq, 1912 (ca, taken) 1980s-1990s (print), [Storyville portrait], Gelatin silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/127283
Thomas Eakins, 1880s, [Thomas Eakins in Swim Suit], Albumen print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78240
Duchenne & Adrien Tournachon, 1854-1856 (taken) 1862 (print), Figure 19: Suffering, [Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine, ou analyse électrophysiologique des passions], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79645
Unidentified photographer, 1850s, [Bust Portrait of an Indian Woman], Albumen silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40372
Southworth & Hawes, 1850 (ca), [Boston Beauty in Black Taffeta Dress and Lace Shawl], Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40620
Henry Fox Talbot, 1839, 26 November, '‘Bookcase'; library shelves with Dresden china, Salt print, from photogenic drawing negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/60421
Juan Pedro Chabalgoity, 1875 (ca), [Photo Collage: Musician Playing Trumpet], Carte de visite, albumen silver print, lithographs, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/95611
Félix Bonfils, 1860s-1880s (taken) 1870 (ca, print), Cous du Kadisha, Monte Libon, Albumen print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/115902
Oumar Ka, 1959-1968 (taken) 2015 (print), Two Women in Front of a Thatch-Roof House [Senegal], Inkjet print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/61690
Francis Bedford, 1870s, Sidmount, West end of Esplanade, Albumen silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/50947
Malick Sidibé, 1979, [Woman Standing Before Striped Background], Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/61697
A.J. Russell, 1864, March, Street Scene, Culpeper, Virginia, Albumen print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/95721
Unidentified photographer (American), 1941, 7 December, [Burning and Damaged Ships at Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, Docked Boat in Foreground], Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/107138
Benjamin Cowderoy, 1846, The Reading Establishment, Salted paper prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/25976
Unknown artist, 1845 (ca), [Women Grinding Paint, Calcutta], Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40536
Eugène Druet (French, 1868-1917), 1898 (before), [The Clenched Hand], Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40554
Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey, 1842-1844, Kaire. Gama Soultan Ansoun, détails, Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78093
Irving Penn, 1985, 1 July, 12 hands of Miles Davis and his trumpet, New York, Photograph, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/91862
Linnaeus Tripe, 1858, January-February, View of the N. E. Angle of the Tirambur Pagoda, Albumen silver print, from waxed paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78031
Giacomo Caneva, 1852 (ca), View from the French Academy at the Villa Medici, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/54197
Maxime Du Camp, 1850 (taken) 1851-1855 (print), Nubie. Kalabscheh. Sculptures de la Facade postérieure du Temple, Salted paper print (Blanquart-Évrard process) from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69381
Unidentified photographer (American School), 1850s (late), [Railroad Wipers], Salted paper print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40410
Robert Frank, 1955-1956, City Fathers, Hoboken, New Jersey, Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/84503
Herbert G. Ponting, 1927, [Distortograph: William Hale "Big Bill" Thompson, Mayor of Chicago], Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/54286
Philip Henry Delamotte & Henry Negretti, 1854, Progress of the Crystal Palace at Sydenham, Albumen silver pint, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/33470
Charles Nègre, 1855, [Plaster Casts of Books and Hands, South Porch, Chartres], Salted paper print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40492
Alphonse Bertillon, 1894, Luce. Maximilien. 36 ans, né le 13/3/58 à Paris VIIe. Artiste-peintre. Anarchiste. 6/7/94., Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78465
Félix Teynard, 1851-1852 (taken) 1853-1854 (print), Ile de Fîleh (Philæ), Vue Générale Prise du Sud-Est au Point B, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Imprimerie Photographique de H. de Fonteny et Cie, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69229
Émile Gsell, 1866, Riche Annamite montant à cheval, Cochinchine, Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/77978
Maxime Du Camp, 1850 (taken) 1851-1855 (print), Nubie. Seconde Cataracte. Dgebel-Abouoir, Salted paper print (Blanquart-Évrard process) from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69377
Southworth & Hawes, 1855, [View Down Brattle Street from the Southworth & Hawes Studio at 5 1/2 Tremont Row, Boston], Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40614
Unidentified photographer, 1862-1865, [Private James Malcolm Hart, Crenshaw's Virginia Battery], Ambrotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/50256
Roger Fenton, 1852, Moscow, Domes of Churches in the Kremlin, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78072
Pierre-Louis Pierson (French, 1822-1913); Aquilin Schad (Austrian, 1817-1866)., 1861-1864, La Frayeur (Fright), Salted paper print, with gouache, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/63085
Hill & Adamson, 1843-1847, St. Andrews. The College Church of St. Salvator, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69441
Louis de Clercq, 1860 (or later), VIe Station. Ste Véronique essuie la face sanglante de Jésus. Aucune marque extérieure n'indique cette station. La tradition la place au pied du petit escalier, Albumen silver print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78148
Louis de Clercq, 1860 (or later), Jérusalem. Tour Antonia et Environs, Albumen silver print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78118
Frank Eugene, 1911, Friedel Wearing a Kimono, Platinum print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/49903
Walker Evans, 1936, Penny Picture Display, Savannah, Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/6364
Unidentified photographer / collagist, 1850s-1890s, Collaged portrait, [Album of collaged portraits], Albumen silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/95772
Juan Pedro Chabalgoity, 1875 (ca), [Photo Collage: Man in Long Red Coat], Carte de visite, albumen silver print, lithographs, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/95612
Félix Teynard, 1851-1852 (taken) 1853-1854 (print), Gournah (Thèbes), Colosses (Celui de Droite, Dit de Memnon), Salted paper print, from paper negative, Imprimerie Photographique de H. de Fonteny et Cie, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69185
Man Ray, 1922, [Rayograph; Comb, Straight Razor Blade, Needle and Other Forms], Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78176
Félix Teynard, 1851-1852 (taken) 1853-1854 (print), Karnak (Thèbes), Palais - Salle Hypostyle - Fenêtre et Chapiteaux des Galleries Latérales, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Imprimerie Photographique de H. de Fonteny et Cie, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69220
Philip K. Apagya, 2001 (taken) 2003 (print), Ghetto (Blaster), Chromogenic print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/111938
Unidentified photographer / collagist, 1850s-1890s, Collaged portrait, [Album of collaged portraits], Albumen silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/95784
Unidentified photographer (American), 1941, 7 December, [Warship Exploding, Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941], Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/107140
Unidentified photographer (French), 1850s, [Woman in Apron and Bonnet Grinding Coffee in Kitchen Setting], Daguerreotype, stereo, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/120504
Unidentified photographer, 1870s-1880s, 533. Beejapoor - The Moat, the Citadel, & Ruins of Sat Khund, [Beejapoor], Albumen print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/90402
Félix Teynard, 1851-1852 (taken) 1853-1854 (print), Karnak (Thèbes), Enciente du Palais - Détails de Sculptures au Point O, Salted paper print, from paper negative, Imprimerie Photographique de H. de Fonteny et Cie, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69173
Hill & Adamson, 1846, 9 April, [Officer of the 92nd Gordon Highlanders Reading to the Troops, Edinburgh Castle], Salted paper print, from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/69459
Claude Lorrain (ca. 1600-1682), 1646-1647, Sunrise, Oil on canvas, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/62869
Charles Nègre, 1858-1859, The Refectory of the Imperial Asylum at Vincennes, Salted paper print from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/6322
John Moran, 1871, Tropical Scenery, Limon Bay - Low Tide, [Darien Expedition], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40467
Antoine Claudet, 1846-1852, [Multiple Exposures of the Moon], Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/90453
Gustave de Beaucorps, 1859, [Palace of the Dey of Algiers, Algeria], Waxed paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/78150
, 1863, Field Where General Reynolds Fell, Battlefield of Gettysburg, [Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War. Incidents of the War, pl. 37], Albumen silver prints, from glass negatives, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/7457
Mama Casset, 1950s-1960s, Two Reclining Women (Dakar, Senegal), Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/61683
Carleton E. Watkins, 1878 (ca), The Father of the Forest 450 ft C. Grove, Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79619
Cundall & Delamotte, 1850s, Fountains Abbey. The Chapel of the Nine Alters, Exterior, Albumen silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/77958
Henry Fox Talbot, 1843, May-June, The Boulevards at Paris [Previous Title: View of the Boulevards at Paris], Salted paper print from paper negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40569
John Muir Wood, 1847-1852, Family Group, Leith, Salted paper print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/25981
Louis Pierson, 1856-1857, [Countess de Castiglione in Black Cloak, Head on Hand, Leaning at Studio Window], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40321
Man Ray, 1920 (taken) 1967 (ca, print), Dust Breeding, Gelatin silver print, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/45026
Studio Géruzet frères (Belgian, active 1866 and after), 1868, Comment va t'y donc?, Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79692
John Heartfield, 1932, Der Sinn des Hitlergrusses: Kleiner Mann bittet um grosse Gaben. Motto: Millonen Stehen Hinter Mir! [The Meaning of the Hitler Salute: Little man asks for big gifts. Motto: Millions Stand Behind Me!],, Photomechanical reproduction, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/45002
Alexander Gardner, 1862, September, Burying the Dead on the Battlefield of Antietam, September 1862, Albumen print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/84491
Duchenne & Adrien Tournachon, 1854-1856 (taken) 1862 (print), Figure 55: Astonishment badly rendered by the subject: a ridiculous and inane expression., [Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine, ou analyse électrophysiologique des passions], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/79655
Unidentified photographer (American), 1850s, [Man Holding Glasses in Front of Painted Outdoor Backdrop], Daguerreotype, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/73869
Louis Pierson, 1856-1857 (taken) 1861-1866 (print), [Portrait in a White Dress], Salted paper print, from glass negative, hand-painted, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/40387
Julia Margaret Cameron, 1874, The Parting of Lancelot and Guinevere, [Idylls of the King], Albumen silver print, from glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/77593
   

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