Two Quick Notes on "The Extended Moment"

I think it was my third visit to the Morgan Library this year (this time for Patricia's birthday) when I finally got around to looking at their exhibit "The Extended Moment: Photographs from the National Gallery of Canada."

The photograph labeled "Moon, 4 March 1865" (by Louis M. Rutherford, American, 1815-1892) has the most wonderful opening line about the photographer: "Rutherford, a practicing New York lawyer, left the bar to devote his career to astronomy."

And I loved this one (Alison Rossiter's Goya), which looks more like traditional East Asian ink wash paintings than a photograph: