Forging the Canon: The Southworth & Hawes Daguerreotypes at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The story of how the Metropolitan Museum of Art acquired its Southworth & Hawes daguerreotypes demonstrates the surprising role that the subjective opinions of owners and curators have had in the canonization of photography. In the case of the Southworth & Hawes collection, provenance and their role...
| Published in: | American Art Vol. 38; no. 2; pp. 28 - 52 |
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University of Chicago Press
Summer2024
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