The Mirror with a Memory: 19th-Century French Photography

Julia Dolan, Ph.D., the Portland Art Museum's Minor White Curator of Photography, discusses photography’s birth and development in Europe and explores the medium’s profound social and political meanings during this rapidly changing period of France’s history. Lecture delivered July 27, 2014, in celebration of "The Art of the Louvre's Tuileries Garden" (on view at the Museum June 14-Sept. 21, 2014).