Unknown American, active 1850s
Boy Holding a Daguerreotype
1850s Daguerreotype with applied color
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
William L. Schaeffer Collection, Promised Gift of Jennifer and Philip Maritz, in celebration of the Museum’s 150th Anniversary
Contact
Anne Bennington-HelberWilliam L. Clements Library, University of Michigan
734-649-3370
abhelber@umich.edu
The Michigan Photographic Historical Society and the Clements Library are pleased to present
"The Camera at Work" Virtual Lecture with Jeff Rosenheim
Joyce Frank Menschel Curator in Charge
Department of Photographs, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Where
Link to Join: https://zoom.us/j/91422219448
Among the first photographs made in America were “occupational” portraits, depicting people from all walks of life with the tools of their trades and the products of their labor. From that point forward, portrait photographs showing people at work were made all over the world.
In this special VIRTUAL presentation, noted curator Jeff Rosenheim explores the ways photography viewed working people, from the earliest daguerreotypes through the 20th-century lenses of such photographers as August Sander and Irving Penn.