"Chaining the Sun: Portraits by Jeremiah Gurney"
1999-10-09 until 2000-01-23
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Minneapolis, MN, USA United States of America

Jeremiah Gurney was Mathew Bradys primary competitor as a professional portrait photographer during the 1850s and 1860s. The exhibition will include about 150 faithful likenesses of royalty, famous Americans, and average citizens, all drawn from the MIAs major holdings of Gurney material. Most nineteenth-century photographic processes are represented; daguerreotypes, cartes-de-visite, stereo cards, and cabinet cards. A few chairs and other decorative arts objects similar to those seen in the portraits will help provide cultural context.

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