The author will be a guest on our upcoming book event about female photographers in 19th century NYC, free for Untapped New York Insiders. Below, we’re pleased to presente an excerpt from the book Women in the Dark: Female Photographers in the US, 1850-1900by Katherine Manthorne, a Professor of Art History at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Some work, though, still survives by Matilda Moore, a photographer of Civil War era New Yorkers. However, most of these burgeoning photographers were men, and the work of many unsung female photographers of the 19th century is on the whole lost. And there has also been controversy over the first photograph of New York City: while the New York Times reported that the first known photograph likely dated back to 1848 of the Upper West Side, a daguerrotype by Morse of the Unitarian Church on the east side of Broadway across Waverly Place dates back even earlier, likely to fall 1839 or winter 1840. By 1844, there were 16 daguerreotype galleries in New York City, and by the 1850s, early photographers roamed the streets of New York to find the perfect shot. Samuel Morse, the inventor of the telegraph, moved to a studio at the corner of Nassau and Beekman Streets, where he instructed aspiring photographers and image-makers. The advent of the daguerrotype reached the city in the late 1830s, which produced a unique image on a polished, silver-plated copper sheet. Men like Robert Fitz Hubert became moral tales, warning against indulgence in worldly affairs.In the mid and late-19th century, photographers captured scenes of New York City life on some of the earliest cameras invented. They were written by monks, keen to decry the temporal world. William paints a compelling picture of the loss of central authority in England, but there are problems with the sources. William of Malmesbury saw “God’s judgment exercised upon a sacrilegious man, in that he earned so shameful an end not from the king, to whom he was an enemy, but from those whom he seemed to favour”. He was ransomed to Earl Robert, who took him to Devizes and hanged him when his garrison refused to surrender. John didn’t wait for an attack and captured Fitz Hubert. He set his sights on Marlborough Castle, where the castellan was John Fitz Gilbert, the Marshal, whose son William Marshal would become one of medieval Europe’s most famous knights. Instead, he decided to keep it for himself, summoned men from Flanders and set about establishing himself as a local magnate. In March 1140, Fitz Hubert captured the strategically important castle at Devizes but refused to hand it over to the empress.
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