The Pervasive View | Vintage Prints from the National Geographic Image Collection

1 May - 5 June 2010
Alexander Graham Bell Collection 1847-1922 The inventor observes a man test the strength of Bell's tetrahedral design, Nova Scotia, Canada, August, 1903 Dated and inscribed, as part of negative, au recto Agency stamps and Bell Collection stamp, in ink, au verso Printed in 1903 Gelatin silver print 4 x 3 in 10.16 x 7.62 cm
Alexander Graham Bell Collection

1847-1922

The inventor observes a man test the strength of Bell's tetrahedral design, Nova Scotia, Canada, August, 1903
Dated and inscribed, as part of negative, au recto
Agency stamps and Bell Collection stamp, in ink, au verso
Printed in 1903
Gelatin silver print
4 x 3 in
10.16 x 7.62 cm

Exhibition dates: May 1 – June 5, 2010

Reception: May 1, 2-5pm

 

Stephen Bulger Gallery is proud to present the first international exhibition and sale of vintage prints from the Image Collection at the National Geographic Society. The exhibition will feature approximately 80 unique vintage black and white prints representing the earliest days of the Society (founded in 1888) through the 1940s. It will present a selection of premier examples of the most aesthetically and historically significant prints in the collection.

 

The Pervasive View: Vintage Prints from the National Geographic Image Collection is comprised of sets of photographic prints by over a dozen photographers associated with the Society. The exhibition will include images from Canada and from around the world and from several genres, including exploration, discovery, anthropology, aeronautics, and portraiture. Many of these images have never been published. Many have never been seen outside the National Geographic Image Collection archive, housed in Washington D.C.

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