Article: Pictures Didn't Lie Back Then.(exhibition of daguerreotypes of male couples)

WHO among us is not charmed, or perhaps haunted, by the anonymous faces that stare out from 19th-century daguerreotypes or the sepia-toned postcard photos we come upon randomly at a flea market? Who were these people, we wonder; and how have their images come to be thrown into the everyday detritus of modem life?

If their lives have been lost to time, they have not entirely been lost to history. Thus do we learn from a modest exhibition currently at the International Center of Photography (I.C.P.) in New York, and from the even richer book that accompanies the show. Curated by art historian and critic David Deitcher, who has also written a substantial essay for ...

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