In Luc Tuymans’s 17th show at David Zwirner gallery in New York, an exhibition of new and recent large-scale paintings that draw on photography, the artist explores the intersection of memory and…
William Henry Fox Talbot
Upon seeing the first daguerreotype around 1840, the French painter Paul Delaroche (1797-1856), declared: “From today, painting is dead.” Painting did not die that day, but photography was born,…
This summer, the Center will showcase a selection of salted paper prints, one of the earliest forms of photography and a British invention. Featuring more than one hundred seldom-displayed salt…
This summer, the Yale Center for British Art will present an exhibition devoted to one of the earliest forms of photography and a British invention. Salt and Silver: Early Photography, 1840–1860 will…
