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Exhibition dates: 15th September 2022 – 8th January 2023

Unidentified photographer (American)
Untitled [Two Men in Work Clothes, Wearing Hats, One Standing, One Seated]
c. 1880
Tintype
New Orleans Museum of Art
Gift of Stanley B. Burns, MD

The last posting before Christmas is a valuable photographic exhibition on Black Americans which reveals the importance of photography to their culture.

“Frederick Douglass [that fiery American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman] wrote multiple essays on the power of photography to shape perceptions about race. He posited that the medium would be a great liberator of Black Americans, allowing them to control their own narrative.”1

Any archive of photographs on a particular culture or subject which is collected and then freely disseminated is an incredible resource for researchers and the uninitiated. Nevertheless, what we must be mindful of is who is taking the photographs and collecting them (institutions) and to what purpose, and from what position, what point of view, are the resulting photographs being viewed – from the point of view of the subjugated or from the point of view of the ruling elite. Are the photographers from within the community, or are they colonial, imperial documenters of (for example), ethnographic status, a vanishing race, or slaves. If a person from outside the community takes the photographs (for example, the photographs of Edward S. Curtis), what was his purpose and what was the constructed, mythical story he wanted to tell… and are the photographs still valuable all these years later to contemporary First Nations people looking back on the people, rituals and customs that were portrayed in them.

The photographs in this posting will have a very different meaning to those that live within the community which is portrayed, I expect bringing mixed feelings of pride and the knowledge of the struggle of Black

The New Orleans Museum of Art announced the fall opening of “Called to the Camera: Black American Studio Photographers,” a major exhibition focusing on the artistic virtuosity, social significance and political impact of Black American photographers working in commercial portrait studios during photography’s first century and beyond.

The exhibition focuses on a national cohort of professional camera operators, demonstrating the variety of work they produced and their influence on the broader history of photography. Two New Orleans photographers who captured Creole life in the city during the early- and mid-20th century are featured.

“Chief among NOMA’s goals is to support important projects that amplify the histories of under-represented communities,” said Susan Taylor, Montine McDaniel Freeman Director of the New Orleans Museum of Art. “’Called to the Camera’ does exactly that: It articulates a story that is both local and national, centering the importance of Black photographers in their communities and in the history of photography.”

Featuring more than 150 photographs spanning from the 19th century to present day, many of which have never been publicly exhibited and are unique objects, “Called to the Camera” will be on view at NOMA from Sept. 16 to Jan. 8.

The exhibition will feature work from across the country, demonstrating how the Black photography studio was a national phenomenon. The exhibition includes an interspersed selection of works by modern and contemporary artists, illustrating connections between the historical legacy of Black photography studios and what we consider to be fine art photography today.

The two New Orleans photographers

This is a list of notable photographers.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Africa

Algeria

Benin

Cameroon

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Egypt

Further information: List of Egyptian women photographers

Eritrea

Ethiopia

Gambia

Ghana

Kenya

Mali

Namibia

Nigeria

Further information: Photography in Nigeria and List of Nigerian women photographers

Sierra Leone

South Africa

See also: Photography in South Africa

Uganda

Asia

Armenia

Azerbaijan

Bangladesh

Main article: List of Bangladeshi photographers

Cambodia

China

Main articles: List of Chinese photographers and List of Chinese women photographers

See also: Photography in China

Georgia

Hong Kong

India

Indonesia

Iran

Iraq

Israel

Japan

Main articles: List of Japanese photographers and List of Japanese women photographers

See also: Photography in Japan

Korean

Main article: List of Korean photographers

Lebanon

Pakistan

Palestine

Singapore

Sri Lanka

Syria

Taiwan

See also: Photography in Taiwan

Thailand

Turkey

See also: Photography in Turkey

Vietnam

• Huynh Cong Ut, known professionally as Nick Ut (born 1951)

See also: Photography in Vietnam

Europe

Albania

Main article: List of Albanian photographers

Austria

Further information: List of Austrian women photographers

Belgium

Croatia

Czech Republic

Denmark

See also: Photography in Denmark

Further information: List of Danish women photographers

Estonia

Finland

France

Main articles: List of French photographers and List of French women photographers

Germany

Further information: List of German women photographers

Greece

Main article: List of Greek photographers

Hungary

Iceland

Ireland

Italy

Latvia

Lithuania

Luxembourg

See also: Photogra

When reflecting on the history of photography there are a lot of men that come to mind, but for each one of those men, there is an equal woman. Throughout the history of photography, women have been underrepresented and overlooked. Recently there has been a greater acknowledgement of their contributions to photography both past and present.

Constance Fox Talbot

One of the first women to leave her mark on the history of photography was Constance Fox Talbot (1811–1880). Fox Talbot is considered the first woman to take a photograph. Her husband, Henry Fox Talbot, invented the Calotype photographic process in the 1830s and patented it in 1841. What made the Calotype superior to another early photographic process, the daguerreotype, is that the daguerreotype process only produced a single positive image, there is no negative image to make duplicates from. But the Calotype was revolutionary because it produced a negative image from which endless amounts of positive images can be produced from. Her first image was a contact print using a verse from the Irish poet, Thomas Moore. She laid the page from the manuscript directly on top of the photosensitive paper and exposed it to the sun, creating the image. 

Around the same time, Constance Fox Talbot was experimenting with a new photographic process, Anna Atkins (1799–1871) was experimenting with a different one. Anna Atkins is synonymous with cyanotypes, which is typically a contact print process.

The cyanotype process was invented by John Herschel in the early 1840s and was often used for making blueprints. Atkins used the process for botanical specimens. She published the book Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions which was the first book to ever be published that consisted of only photographs, her cyanotype images.

By the mid-1840s women were setting up daguerreotype studios a