[Three Portraits in Original Exhibition Frame]

Art Historical Context

Step into the pioneering world of photography with * Portraits in Original Exhibition Frame* by Louis-Adphe Humbert de Mol, a salted paper print from 185 now housed in the Metropolitan Museum Art's Department of Photographs. Created just over a decade after the invention of photography, this 22 x 47.1 cm work exemplifies the medium's early promise as a tool for intimate portraiture, capturing three unidentified subjects with remarkable clarity and subtlety. Salted paper prints a hallmark of the calotype process popularized by William Henry Fox Talbot, involved coating paper with salt and silv...