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The play of sunlight on plants has inspired photographers since the dawn of this medium. Photo by Sadja Herzog. | The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.
Thanks to digital technology, it’s possible for anyone with a smartphone to create galleries of captivating plant images in an afternoon. But this is just the latest chapter in a long love affair between photographers and plants—many examples of which are documented in The Huntington’s collections.
Installation view of “Albrecht Dürer: Wanderlust.” Photo by Linnea Stephan. | The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.
Albrecht Dürer’s travels to Italy and beyond shaped him as an artist, and his influence on artistic contemporaries transformed European art.
Detail of Declaration of Independence, 1776, printed by Ezekiel Russell in Salem, Massachusetts. | The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.
In 1789, historian David Ramsay (1749–1815) marveled that the United States was a nation “born in a day” and that American subjects of a king “became citizens” overnight—a wildly simplified notion of U.S. history that later would be repeated in many a Fourth of July oration. Even though news of the break from Great Britain did spread quickly, by 18th-century standards, it took more than a month to spread the word. The Huntington holds items that reveal the complexity of that story.
Joseph Hansen at a typewriter, photographer unknown, 1969. Joseph Hansen Papers. | The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.
Joseph Hansen, whose novels chronicle significant shifts in gay life between 1970 and the early 1990s, is best known for his series featuring the openly and unapologetically gay private investigator Dave Brandstetter.
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