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Historic Portraits Celebrate the Earliest African American Photographers

Historic Portraits Celebrate the Earliest African American Photographers

A side-by-side daguerreotype case showing a Black woman holding a young girl on the left and a white woman with three children on the right.

The National Gallery of Art has announced an exhibition that will trace African American photographers and portrait subjects from the earliest days of photography.

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