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Tim Greyhavens

@thegreyhavens.bsky.social
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Photo historian, lover of art and life. Author of Artistic and Life-Like: Photography in Washington, 1850-1900. #photohistory www.timgreyhavens.com "I've never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks." ~Daniel Boone

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Tim Greyhavens @thegreyhavens.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Great story about how a dedicated curator snatched a masterpiece from that other museums should have been coveting. www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/09/30/t...
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Toledo Museum of Art acquires landmark 19th-century photographic series
The museum’s director says F. Holland Day's "The Seven Words" (1898), depicting the artist as Jesus on the cross, is “the most important photograph that people don’t know about”
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Tim Greyhavens @thegreyhavens.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Too often, closures like this are more about a board's true interests (or lack thereof) rather than the financial reality of the situation.
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Tim Greyhavens @thegreyhavens.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Citing years of rising operating costs, declining public funding and changes in the philanthropic landscape, SF Camerawork, one of the longest-running independent organizations in the U.S. devoted to contemporary photography, will close after more than five decades. #photography #nonprofits
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SF Camerawork to close after more than 50 years championing contemporary photography
SF Camerawork, one of the longest-running independent organizations in the United States devoted to contemporary photography, will close after more th
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Tim Greyhavens @thegreyhavens.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
A tale of two cities. Current job openings for an Assistant Curator. #arthistory #artmuseums London, National Portrait Gallery, full-time position: Salary £33,678 (USD $45,352) recruiter.hr-manager.net/Export/Attac... Or...
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
THIS 👇 HERE.......
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Tim Greyhavens @thegreyhavens.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
If you're not already worried about deepfakes and the massive surveillance of our lives, then you should watch The Capture on Prime. It is so powerfully scripted, directed, and acted that you may never sleep well again. www.imdb.com/title/tt8201...
Poster for the TV series The Capture. It shows a woman and a man in front of dozens of monitors, each shoing difference aspects of our lives.
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Tim Greyhavens @thegreyhavens.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Happy #EarthDay and a special shoutout to all the photographers, past and present, who have devoted their lives to showing us the extraordinary beauty of our world.
Vintage black-and-white photograph showing a photographer with his camera on a tripod while standing at the edge of a rocky precipice overlooking a very deep and mountainous valley.
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 15/04/2026
"There is no justification for a regressive system in which the super-rich contribute less than the rest of us," write @josephestiglitz.bsky.social, @gabrielzucman.bsky.social, and @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social.
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Tax Day is a reminder of America’s unequal tax system. But we can fix it | Zohran Mamdani, Gabriel Zucman and Joseph Stiglitz
There is no justification for a regressive system in which the super-rich contribute less than the rest of us
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Tim Greyhavens @thegreyhavens.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Boycott L. L. Bean NOW!
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Tim Greyhavens @thegreyhavens.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Images of Nadar photographing from a balloon a fairly common, but how many know the whole story of his epic flight? #photography #photohistory #nadar petapixel.com/2026/04/03/p...
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Photography Pioneer Nadar Went on a Mad Balloon Ride That Ended in Near-Catastrophe
He wanted to master aerial photography, he almost killed multiple people.
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Picture This Post @picturethispost.com · 24/03/2026
An art museum in San Jose shines a light on the underrecognized women in the tech industry. Click the link in the Picture This Post Museum section to read the preview-- @sanjosemuseumofart.bsky.social #BayAreaMuseums #BayAreaArt #PictureThisPostMuseums #PictureThisPostArt
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San José Museum of Art Presents MOTHERBOARD - Preview
A spokesperson says--- “..Motherboards, an exhibition that explores the foundational yet overlooked contributions of underrecognized women to the technology
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Tim Greyhavens @thegreyhavens.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Pity the Nation. Poem by Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
Pity the nation whose people are sheep
And whose shepherds mislead them
Pity the nation whose leaders are liars
Whose sages are silenced
and whose bigots haunt the airways
Pity the nation that raises not its voice
bu aims to rule the world
by force and by torture
And knows no other language but its own
Pity the nation whose breath is money
and sleeps the sleep of the too well fed
Pity the nation Oh pit the people of my
country
My country, tears of thee
Sweet land of liberty!
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Tim Greyhavens @thegreyhavens.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
#photography #photohistory #daguerreotype #slavery
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South Carolina’s International African American Museum Officially Acquires Earliest Known Daguerreotypes of Enslaved Americans
The International African American Museum in South Carolina has acquired the earliest known collection of images of enslaved Americans.
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Tim Greyhavens @thegreyhavens.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
The Netherlands Fotomuseum gets a stunning new home for its massive collection. #photography #photohistory #photomuseum www.wallpaper.com/architecture...
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Netherlands Fotomuseum has a new home – light, transparent and unexpected
Look inside the newly redesigned former warehouse in Rotterdam, opening 7 February
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Tim Greyhavens @thegreyhavens.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
The Women of Photography 24-Hour-Conference-A-Thon schedule (8 March 2026 UTC+0) is now available. It's another amazing lineup of presenters and topics, and you can tune in by Zoom. #photohistory #womenphotographers womenofphoto.com
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Women of Photography
Join us to celebrate the contributions of women practitioners to the history and living present of photography.
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Tim Greyhavens @thegreyhavens.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
In 1839 #OTD, William Henry Fox Talbot exhibited several paper photographs he had made in 1835. One was this image, a latticed window at Lacock Abbey. It was a positive from what may be the oldest existing camera negative. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_F... #photohistory #photography
Latticed window at Lacock Abbey, August 1835. A positive from what may be the oldest existing camera negative.
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WomenRiseUp2026 @womenriseup2026.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
#Epstein #EpsteinFiles
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AimEEK!! Ogden @aimeeogdenwrites.com · 23/01/2026
Thinking of the good people of Minnesota today - solidarity forever. If you're as far away from MN as I am, and if you're able, maybe look around on the Stand With Minnesota site to see where you might be able to help today?
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Stand With Minnesota Donation Directory
Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.
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WomenRiseUp2026 @womenriseup2026.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
#Epstein #EpsteinFiles
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Tim Greyhavens @thegreyhavens.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
My post about some amazing but forgotten early 20th-century photography is now live on Medium. #photography #historyofphotography #AYPE #Seattle #Pictorialism medium.com/@TimGreyhave...
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The Forgotten Photography Exhibitions at the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition
In the summer of 1909, an estimated 3.7 million visitors poured into the burgeoning city of Seattle to take part in the spectacle of the…
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Tim Greyhavens @thegreyhavens.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
The DOJ says it has "discovered" a million more #Epstein documents. It turns out that Bill Gates was sitting on them all long.
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Tim Greyhavens @thegreyhavens.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Here's a headline from the Aurora Journal [Indiana]newspaper of December 30, 1865, that could easily come right out of today's news.
1865 newspaper article: A Michigan soldier arrested for stealing a goose said he found the bird hissing at the American flag and arrested him for treason.
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Tim Greyhavens @thegreyhavens.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
It's unfair that we won't have Christopher Knight to tell us what is really happening here.
artnews.com
Lucas Museum Exodus Continues as Chief Curator Pilar Tompkins Rivas Departs
Pilar Tompkins Rivas joined the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art exodus, departing as chief curator.
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Tim Greyhavens @thegreyhavens.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Great news for American #libraries and all of us who use them! www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
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ALA welcomes reinstatement of all federal IMLS grants to libraries
Today, the American Library Association (ALA) greeted an announcement by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) that it had reinstated all the agency’s grants.
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Tim Greyhavens @thegreyhavens.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Happy Birthday to Anne Brigman, born #OTD in near Honolulu, Hawaii. She became one of the most recognized photographers of all time for her many pictorialist images of women and others who seemed to live in nature. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Br... #womenphotographers #photohistory
Portrait of Anne Brigman by Francis Bruguiere. She sits on the floor clothed in a loose flowing gown while staring into a clear glass ball.Soul of the Blasted Pine, a self-portrait created by Brigman. She rises unclothed from a twisted stump, reaching toward a cloud-filled sky with her left hand in the air. The Dying Cedar by Anne Brigman. A semi-nude woman draped in a long, dark cloth mimics the shaped of a twisted tree against a dramatic sky.Wondrous Globe, by anne Brigman. A nude boy kneels on the ground and studies a glass globe sitting on the ground in front of him. The ground rises sharply at an angle, and the scene is viewed in profile. The sky behind is filled with soft white clours.
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Tim Greyhavens @thegreyhavens.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
#blueskyartshow Vacation homes along the shore of Lake Michigan, USA
5 similar one-story houses, each painted a distinctive color, sit at the edge of Lake Michigan, which is barely visible behind the houses. The sky above is deep blue except for a few floating white clouds.
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Tim Greyhavens @thegreyhavens.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
I love reading about the challenges and triumphs of early #womenphotographers. Here's some great research on Californians Amanda Genung, a daguerreotypist and ambrotypist, and Jane Cary Howard, ambrotypist and Amanda’s business partner. #photohistory www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/6petl...
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Tim Greyhavens @thegreyhavens.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Astounding 19th-century mystical abstraction by British artist Georgiana Houghton. #GeorgianaHoughton #womenartists #abstractartists #19thcenturyartists
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“The Substantiality of Spirit”: Georgiana Houghton’s Pictures from the Other Side
When Georgiana Houghton first exhibited her paintings at a London gallery in 1871, their wild eddies of colour and line were unlike anything the public had seen before — nor would see again until the ...
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Tim Greyhavens @thegreyhavens.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
If you see a ghost of a one-armed man lurking among some gravestones tonight, don't be alarmed. He's just looking for his lost arm. #halloween #gravestones #scarygraveyards
Photograph of a very old tombstone in a grass-covered graveyard. The writing on the tombstone says "Lost Arm of F. Stewart, Sept. 27, 1910."
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Tim Greyhavens @thegreyhavens.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
If you like watching scary films for Halloween (or any other day) but don't have time for a full-length film, I highly recommend these short but creepy gems by my son, Teal Greyhavens. #horrorfilms #scarymovies #halloween www.inkrunfilms.com/work
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KNinja @khrisnin.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.
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Tim Greyhavens @thegreyhavens.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
It's photography! On a boat! in the 19th century! Creative photographers roamed America via our vast network of rivers, sometimes facing enormous challenges. #photographyboats #photohistory www.timgreyhavens.com/daguerreian-...
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Tim Greyhavens | Daguerreian Yachts
An exploration of early American photography boats that floated down the Ohio, Mississippi, and other Rivers during the last half of the 19th century.
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Tim Greyhavens @thegreyhavens.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Outstanding news from Victoria, Australia, today! This is the first step in righting centuries of wrong to the First Peoples of their continent. #Australia #FirstPeoples www.theage.com.au/politics/vic...
theage.com.au
The votes are counted and the quiet shattered as treaty arrives in Victoria
The first treaty with our First Peoples came after a long debate and even longer wait.
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Tough Kid @toughkid.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
The Seattle Monorail is a mile long. bsky.app/profile/angr...
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Tim Greyhavens @thegreyhavens.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
#NoKings protest right now #Seattle
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Tim Greyhavens @thegreyhavens.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Happy World Photobook Day! What better way to celebrate than to look back at the beginning of photography and its growth in Washington State? It's filled with over 200 photographs that show the growth of the medium and its impact on our society.
Advertisement for my book, Artistic and Life-Like: Photography in Washington, 1850-1900. Available now through your local bookstore or online for $45.
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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
"Only if we understand, can we care. Only if we care, we will help. Only if we help, we shall be saved." 🕊🐒 RIP Dame Dr #JaneGoodall. The groundbreaking zoologist, primatologist, and anthropologist has passed away, aged 91.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
I stand with PBS. I stand with NPR. I stand with Stephen Colbert. I stand with Jimmy Kimmel. I stand with the First Amendment. PERIOD.* *Also #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files
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Tim Greyhavens @thegreyhavens.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
In 1883 #OTD, Cree photographer Richard Throssel was born in Marengo, Washington Territory, USA. Starting in 1902, he created a catalog of more than 1,000 images of the Crow People and their lifestyles. #CrowNation #NativePhotography #RichardThrossel
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Richard Throssel - Wikipedia
Richard Throssell (1882–1933) was a Cree photographer, who documented life on the Crow Reservation at the beginning of the 20th century.
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Tim Greyhavens @thegreyhavens.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Famed Pictorialist photographer Eva Watson-Schütze was born #OTD in 1867. She studied art with Thomas Eakins, but she soon became a strong advocate for women photographers, writing, "I want [my work] judged by only one standard, irrespective of sex." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva_Wat...
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Eva Watson-Schütze - Wikipedia
Eva Watson-Schütze (September 16, 1867 – 1935) was an American photographer who was one of the founding members of the Photo-Secession.
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ᑕᕼᗴᖇYᒪ @cheryl2877.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
I absolutely agree with #BobMarley 🎯 🎯 🎯 #Pinks #ProudBlue
“You will never find justice in a world where criminals make the rules.”

~ Bob Marley
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Tim Greyhavens @thegreyhavens.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Seattle professional photographer Adair Rutledge has a great new series called "Nashville Cardinals." It's about a pee-wee football team and "what it means to be a child and expectations for what it means to 'Be a Man'.” Outstanding work! #documentaryphotography adairrutledge.com/NASHVILLE-CA...
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Adair Freeman Rutledge | Photographer | NASHVILLE-CARDINALS | 1
Adair Freeman Rutledge is a Nashville and Seattle based commercial and editorial photographer specializing in lifestyle and portraits.
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Tim Greyhavens @thegreyhavens.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
I’m super excited about the rare forthcoming exhibition of Symbolist art at the @artinstitutechi.bsky.social. Such amazing imagery. #symbolism #arthistory www.artic.edu/exhibitions/...
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Strange Realities: The Symbolist Imagination | The Art Institute of Chicago
This display featuring over 85 Symbolist works on paper by artists including Edvard Munch, Odilon Redon, and Paul Gauguin captures the beauty and strangeness of a mysterious generation of artists.
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Tim Greyhavens @thegreyhavens.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Fixed your headline for you, @nytimes.com
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Tim Greyhavens @thegreyhavens.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
How many early women photographers do you know? Here’s my starting list for some of the best. #womenphotographers #photohistory
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Ten Early Women Photographers You Should Know
In honor of Women’s History Month, I’m shining a light on some of the many under-recognized and under-valued women photographers of the past. Sadly, there are way too many photographers who should hav...
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Tim Greyhavens @thegreyhavens.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Such a wonderful and yet unusual portrait. Theo van Rysselberghe - Portrait of Irma Sèthe. 1894. Musée du Petit Palais. What's going on with the half-exposed person in the next room whose hand captures a strangely disproportionate amount of attention? #neoimpressionism #pointalism #VanRysselberghe
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Tim Greyhavens @thegreyhavens.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
For fans of early mobile photography studios, I just posted the initial results of my research about the Boston Railroad Photo Car. As many as 13 of these cars traveled throughout the American West during the 1890s. www.timgreyhavens.com/post/the-bos... #photohistory #mobilepotographystudios
A vintage cabinet card photograph of a smiling girl with long, dark hair. She is sitting in a big wooden armchair and looking directly at the camera. She seems very confident in her gaze. At the bottom of the card it says "Boston-R-R-Photo-Car No 4."
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
"One of the reasons the epidemic of violence against women is so unacknowledged is because cases like these are talked about individually, and often treated as though they are shocking aberrations rather than part of a pervasive pattern that operates at all levels of society."
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The problem is far bigger than Jeffrey Epstein | Rebecca Solnit
Treating the scandal as an aberration misunderstands the global epidemic of violence against women
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Tim Greyhavens @thegreyhavens.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
How I'm actually feeling on this Wednesday evening.
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Christine and the Queens - Tilted (Official Video)
YouTube video by Christine and the Queens
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