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» 1896 Washington Salon and Art Photographic Exhibition
   Three prestigious Washington, D.C. organizations played a major role in the establishment and acceptance of art photography in America. The Camera Club of the Capital Bicycle Club sponsored the 1896 Washington Salon and Art Photographic Exhibition. The Co
   http://americanhistory.si.edu/1896/index.htm

» Concerning the Spiritual in Photography
   Approaching photography and photographer literally as a "medium," this exhibition considers how historical and present-day practitioners utilize and reference intrinsic mechanics of light-sensitive media to achieve spiritual allusions and illusions. Photo
   http://www.bu.edu/prc/spirit.htm

» Heavens Above
   An online exhibit from the New York Public Library that compares the 19th-century chromolithographs of astronomical observations made by artist/astronomer Etienne Trouvelot with comparable images photographed by NASA as part of its space program.
   http://www.nypl.org/research/sibl/trouvelot/

» IDEA Photographic | After Modernism
   A contemporary view of history from the photography collections at the Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, Princeton University Art Museum, and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
   http://www.museumofnewmexico.org/mfa/ideaphotographic/index.html

» Museum of Modern Art Collection and Virtual Exhibitions
   The Museum began to collect photographs in 1930 and established the Photography Department in 1940. Site links to MoMA's virtual group and one-person exhibitions, including Rudy Burkhardt, Andreas Gursky, Aleksandr Rodchenko, David Goldblatt, and Cindy Sh
   http://www.moma.org/collection/depts/photography/index.html

» Recollecting a Culture: Selections from the Fotokino Archive
   Recollecting a Culture is a study of the political and economic pressures on the visual arts of the German Democratic Republic (GDR). It draws from the Fotokino Archive, comprised of approximately 14,000 prints and several thousand negatives, which was ac
   http://www.bu.edu/prc/fotokino/index.htm

» Urban Life Through Two Lenses
   The exhibition represents multiple approaches to history, material culture and time. Photographs by William Notman (1826-1891), re-visited and re-photographed by contemporary photographer Andrzej Maciejewski, with separate historical, photographic, and mu
   http://www.mccord-museum.qc.ca/en/