A Brief History of Photography and Transmission

Reflecting on a year in which our necessary physical distances were made smaller, made more bearable, by the ease in which we can transmit images—sharing moments of our lives with those who could not be present—the New Orleans Museum of Art has organized an exhibition focusing on this now-ubiquitous act of photo sharing. 

Considering the photographic history of the efforts to get images from one place to another, NOMA has pulled photos from its permanent collection that highlight various ways in which photographs—from their embryonic lives as daguerrotypes to now—have been reproduced, distributed, shared, and received. The exhibition is a study considering how photography is transmitted, what it transmits, and who benefits from its transmission. 

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