Tim Greyhavens
@thegreyhavens.bsky.social
Photo historian, lover of art and life. Author of Artistic and Life-Like: Photography in Washington, 1850-1900. #photohistory www.timgreyhavens.com "I've never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks." ~Daniel Boone
Great story about how a dedicated curator snatched a masterpiece from that other museums should have been coveting. www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/09/30/t...
Toledo Museum of Art acquires landmark 19th-century photographic series
The museum’s director says F. Holland Day's "The Seven Words" (1898), depicting the artist as Jesus on the cross, is “the most important photograph that people don’t know about”
theartnewspaper.com
Too often, closures like this are more about a board's true interests (or lack thereof) rather than the financial reality of the situation.
Hyperallergic@hyperallergic.com · 4w agoFounding Chair Charles Traub said he believed the closure could have been avoided with “better coordination” and more strategies for “how we were going to deal with the future of AI.”
Citing years of rising operating costs, declining public funding and changes in the philanthropic landscape, SF Camerawork, one of the longest-running independent organizations in the U.S. devoted to contemporary photography, will close after more than five decades. #photography #nonprofits
SF Camerawork to close after more than 50 years championing contemporary photography
SF Camerawork, one of the longest-running independent organizations in the United States devoted to contemporary photography, will close after more th
artdaily.com
A tale of two cities. Current job openings for an Assistant Curator. #arthistory #artmuseums London, National Portrait Gallery, full-time position: Salary £33,678 (USD $45,352) recruiter.hr-manager.net/Export/Attac... Or...
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If you're not already worried about deepfakes and the massive surveillance of our lives, then you should watch The Capture on Prime. It is so powerfully scripted, directed, and acted that you may never sleep well again. www.imdb.com/title/tt8201...
Happy #EarthDay and a special shoutout to all the photographers, past and present, who have devoted their lives to showing us the extraordinary beauty of our world.
"There is no justification for a regressive system in which the super-rich contribute less than the rest of us," write @josephestiglitz.bsky.social, @gabrielzucman.bsky.social, and @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social.
Tax Day is a reminder of America’s unequal tax system. But we can fix it | Zohran Mamdani, Gabriel Zucman and Joseph Stiglitz
There is no justification for a regressive system in which the super-rich contribute less than the rest of us
theguardian.com
Images of Nadar photographing from a balloon a fairly common, but how many know the whole story of his epic flight? #photography #photohistory #nadar petapixel.com/2026/04/03/p...
Photography Pioneer Nadar Went on a Mad Balloon Ride That Ended in Near-Catastrophe
He wanted to master aerial photography, he almost killed multiple people.
petapixel.com
An art museum in San Jose shines a light on the underrecognized women in the tech industry. Click the link in the Picture This Post Museum section to read the preview-- @sanjosemuseumofart.bsky.social #BayAreaMuseums #BayAreaArt #PictureThisPostMuseums #PictureThisPostArt
San José Museum of Art Presents MOTHERBOARD - Preview
A spokesperson says--- “..Motherboards, an exhibition that explores the foundational yet overlooked contributions of underrecognized women to the technology
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#photography #photohistory #daguerreotype #slavery
South Carolina’s International African American Museum Officially Acquires Earliest Known Daguerreotypes of Enslaved Americans
The International African American Museum in South Carolina has acquired the earliest known collection of images of enslaved Americans.
artnews.com
The Netherlands Fotomuseum gets a stunning new home for its massive collection. #photography #photohistory #photomuseum www.wallpaper.com/architecture...
Netherlands Fotomuseum has a new home – light, transparent and unexpected
Look inside the newly redesigned former warehouse in Rotterdam, opening 7 February
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The Women of Photography 24-Hour-Conference-A-Thon schedule (8 March 2026 UTC+0) is now available. It's another amazing lineup of presenters and topics, and you can tune in by Zoom. #photohistory #womenphotographers womenofphoto.com
Women of Photography
Join us to celebrate the contributions of women practitioners to the history and living present of photography.
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In 1839 #OTD, William Henry Fox Talbot exhibited several paper photographs he had made in 1835. One was this image, a latticed window at Lacock Abbey. It was a positive from what may be the oldest existing camera negative. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_F... #photohistory #photography
Thinking of the good people of Minnesota today - solidarity forever. If you're as far away from MN as I am, and if you're able, maybe look around on the Stand With Minnesota site to see where you might be able to help today?
Stand With Minnesota Donation Directory
Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.
standwithminnesota.com
My post about some amazing but forgotten early 20th-century photography is now live on Medium. #photography #historyofphotography #AYPE #Seattle #Pictorialism medium.com/@TimGreyhave...
The Forgotten Photography Exhibitions at the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition
In the summer of 1909, an estimated 3.7 million visitors poured into the burgeoning city of Seattle to take part in the spectacle of the…
medium.com
The DOJ says it has "discovered" a million more #Epstein documents. It turns out that Bill Gates was sitting on them all long.
Here's a headline from the Aurora Journal [Indiana]newspaper of December 30, 1865, that could easily come right out of today's news.
It's unfair that we won't have Christopher Knight to tell us what is really happening here.
Lucas Museum Exodus Continues as Chief Curator Pilar Tompkins Rivas Departs
Pilar Tompkins Rivas joined the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art exodus, departing as chief curator.
artnews.com
Great news for American #libraries and all of us who use them! www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
ALA welcomes reinstatement of all federal IMLS grants to libraries
Today, the American Library Association (ALA) greeted an announcement by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) that it had reinstated all the agency’s grants.
ala.org
Happy Birthday to Anne Brigman, born #OTD in near Honolulu, Hawaii. She became one of the most recognized photographers of all time for her many pictorialist images of women and others who seemed to live in nature. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Br... #womenphotographers #photohistory
I love reading about the challenges and triumphs of early #womenphotographers. Here's some great research on Californians Amanda Genung, a daguerreotypist and ambrotypist, and Jane Cary Howard, ambrotypist and Amanda’s business partner. #photohistory www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/6petl...
Astounding 19th-century mystical abstraction by British artist Georgiana Houghton. #GeorgianaHoughton #womenartists #abstractartists #19thcenturyartists
“The Substantiality of Spirit”: Georgiana Houghton’s Pictures from the Other Side
When Georgiana Houghton first exhibited her paintings at a London gallery in 1871, their wild eddies of colour and line were unlike anything the public had seen before — nor would see again until the ...
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If you see a ghost of a one-armed man lurking among some gravestones tonight, don't be alarmed. He's just looking for his lost arm. #halloween #gravestones #scarygraveyards
If you like watching scary films for Halloween (or any other day) but don't have time for a full-length film, I highly recommend these short but creepy gems by my son, Teal Greyhavens. #horrorfilms #scarymovies #halloween www.inkrunfilms.com/work
