12.22.2010

Photography Changes the Historical Research Curators Do

A monochromatic Hillotype plate from Reverend Levi Hill’s early experiments in color photography, possibly one of the houses on the street where Hill lived or nearby in West Kill, New York, circa 1850s.


Michelle Anne Delaney, curator of the Photographic History Collection at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, investigates some controversial examples of early color photography. Follow the link below:

http://click.si.edu/Story.aspx?story=646

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