Miss Frances Benjamin Johnston, artist and photographer. Place card by William Mills Thomson, 1896.
This preserved scene shows Drawing of a woman leaning on a camera on a tripod and holding a painter's palette. The catalog record identifies and dates the moment as: Miss Frances Benjamin Johnston, artist and photographer. Place card by William Mills Thomson, 1896.
This preserved scene shows Drawing of a woman leaning on a camera on a tripod and holding a painter's palette. The catalog record identifies and dates the moment as: Miss Frances Benjamin Johnston, artist and photographer. Place card by William Mills Thomson, 1896.
Historical photographs preserve details that written records can miss: clothing, tools, architecture, body language, and the ordinary environments around important changes.
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Andy Warhol, artist, with a Polavision movie camera. Photo by Bernard Gotfryd, around 1977.
Crowd waiting for the Pope, Yankee Stadium, New York. Photo by Bernard Gotfryd, 1979.
Scott County High School principal Gregory Figgs, Georgetown, Kentucky. Photo by Scott J. Ferrell, 1998.