STEALING HORSES™ - Editorial

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

During 1841-42, William and Frederick Langenheim inaugurated a daguerreotype studio in Philadelphia. Renowned for their technical prowess, these former journalists weren't the city's first photographers but certainly rose to prominence as its most celebrated. On May 26, 1854, the Langenheim brothers captured eight consecutive daguerreotypes of the first total solar eclipse visible in North America since the birth of photography.

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