Herbaria (detail), 2021, from the series Pileups, Stephanie Syjuco. Hand-assembled pigmented inkjet prints on Hahnemühle Baryta. Getty Museum. © Stephanie Syjuco Herbaria (detail), 2021, from the series Pileups, Stephanie Syjuco. Hand-assembled pigmented inkjet prints on Hahnemühle Baryta. Getty Museum. © Stephanie Syjuco

The earliest photographs—often associated with small, faded, sepia-toned images—may seem to belong to a bygone era, but many of the conventions established during photography’s earliest years persist today. Organized around five themes dating back to the medium’s beginnings, this exhibition explores nineteenth-century photographs through the work of twenty-one contemporary artists. These interchanges between the first decades of the medium and the most recent invite us to reimagine nineteenth-century photography while exploring its complexities.

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