Edwin Booth.  Stereograph by J. Gurney & Son. Image ID: 89096 When we started to think about an exhibition on Head Shots based on the Library for the Performing Arts' collections, we discovered that almost every format in the history of photographic portraits was used as a head shot.  Not, despite the title, daguerreotypes, but almost everything with a reproducable negative since then. The one format t…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 02:52PM on July 8, 2015