Category: Women’s History

Material Matters | Looking Deeper at Photographic Formats

January 11, 2024

Posted by: Kate Fogle

Photographs are portals. In our looking, their subjects usher us through bordered edges to times and places both unknown and familiar. They allow us to slip inside to discern their scenes and settings and to learn their unique pictorial lexicons. But there is more to photographs than their subject matter. The materiality of the image, …

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New Year Greetings from Photographer Frances Benjamin Johnston

January 3, 2024

Posted by: Kristi Finefield

“Greetings and Hearty Good Wishes for the New Year from Frances Benjamin Johnston” reads this combination business card, greeting card, and 1904 calendar from photographer Frances Benjamin Johnston. In 1904, Johnston was thirty years old, had a home photo studio in Washington, D.C., at 1332 V Street, and was already well-established in the capital city. …

Posted in: Photographs, Portraits, Prints, Women's History