Uploaded September 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Close looking is an online discussion series that invites people to spend time with a single work from the AGO Collection - observing its details, discussing its creation, its history and the artist’s intention through multiple senses and perspectives. Connecting art, access and learning, it’s a series that clears a space for us to appreciate the role that artists play in revealing and even shaping the world in which we live.
Join AGO Conservator of Photographs Katharine Whitman and Adam Harris Levine, assistant curator, European Art and Dr. Noemí Espinosa Fernandez, assistant curator of the Hispanic Society Museum and Library, as they discuss daguerreotypes from the Philippines and specifically, Plazuela de San Gabriel, Manila, Philippines, a daguerreotype attributed to Jules Alphonse Eugene Itier (1802 -1877) that is currently on view as part of Faith and Fortune: Art Across the Global Spanish Empire, courtesy the Hispanic Society Museum & Library. This discussion focuses on the daguerreotype process and its creation in the Philippines in the early 1840s, right after their introduction in France in 1839, and the conservation concerns behind displaying this artwork.
Close looking is an online discussion series that invites people to spend time with a single work from the AGO Collection - observing its details, discussing its creation, its history and the artist’s intention through multiple senses and perspectives. Connecting art, access and learning, it’s a series that clears a space for us to appreciate the role that artists play in revealing and even shaping the world in which we live.
Join AGO Conservator of Photographs Katharine Whitman and Adam Harris Levine, assistant curator, European Art and Dr. Noemí Espinosa Fernandez, assistant curator of the Hispanic Society Museum and Library, as they discuss daguerreotypes from the Philippines and specifically, Plazuela de San Gabriel, Manila, Philippines, a daguerreotype attributed to Jules Alphonse Eugene Itier (1802 -1877) that is currently on view as part of Faith and Fortune: Art Across the Global Spanish Empire, courtesy the Hispanic Society Museum & Library. This discussion focuses on the daguerreotype process and its creation in the Philippines in the early 1840s, right after their introduction in France in 1839, and the conservation concerns behind displaying this artwork.
