This Exhibition Is a Total Trip—Through Time

Going to the museum means traveling back in time—and we've got the video evidence to prove it

Annelisa Stephan | February 21, 2014 | Less than a minute

It’ll change you. Time-travel to Victorian England with A Royal Passion: Queen Victoria and Photography, when photography was new and everyone looked mighty fine in sepia and silver. The band Vernian Process shows how it’s done.

Wondering about that group shot in black and white? It’s a bona fide old-school tintype created in a traveling darkroom on the Getty Center plaza by photography wizard Luther Gerlach.

Music by Vernian Process. Video by Christopher Sprinkle.

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Annelisa Stephan

I'm assistant director for digital content strategy and UX in Getty Communications. In this role I lead a team focused on web, user experience, and digital media that seeks to connect new audiences to old art. From 2010 to 2019 I also edited the Getty Iris. I have a B.A. from Yale in History of Art and an M.A. from UCLA in Germanic Linguistics, and was a Fulbright Scholar in Berlin, Germany.

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This Exhibition Is a Total Trip—Through Time

Going to the museum means traveling back in time—and we've got the video evidence to prove it

About The Author

Annelisa Stephan

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