Miniatures and the Photograph
During the 19th century the popularity of the miniature portrait was eroded by the invention of photography and its rapid spread after 1840, firstly as daguerreoptypes and later in other formats as...
View ArticleRebecca Lepkoff
Since Jacob Riis first took photos of the slums on Mulberry Street in the 1890s, artists and reformers have used the Lower East Side to make social statements about the people who lived there. In the...
View ArticleImages of St Petersburg
Russia was one of the first countries in the middle of the 19th century to take up the new invention of photography. It soon had a rapidly growing number of practitioners, both professional and...
View ArticleWest Arabian encounters. Fifty years of Dutch-Arabian relations in images...
It is a well-known fact that the Oriental Collections in Leiden University Library contain more than the Oriental manuscripts by which that institution has justly became famous. Its expensive...
View ArticleScenes of learning in the Hotz Photograph Collection
When Albert Hotz, in the 1890’s, made photographs of Iran and collected the images taken by other photographers (Ernst Hoeltzer and Antoin Sevruguin, to name but the two most important ones), he had in...
View ArticleAlias Man Ray
Mason Klein, curator of fine arts at the Jewish Museum, gives a tour of the exhibition Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention. Man Ray, as one of the iconic figures of the avant-garde of the 20th...
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