From Butterflies to Battleships:

Beginning with the first forays into photographic practice in the nineteenth century, with Louis Daguerre and Nicéphore Niépce in France and William Henry Fox Talbot in England, photographers, the public, and critics alike have argued as to the relative merit of the medium—is it a scientific or artistic process? A method for formal or conceptual exploration? Is a photograph fact or fiction? 

From Butterflies to Battleships draws from the Bruce Museum Photography Collection to present a selection of work by four singular American photographers. The exhibition will showcase the tremendous diversity of directions taken in the twentieth century, whether employing the camera in a documentary mode to record details of insect development or to chronicle sweeping historical events, or experimenting with the technology to create abstract or composite images. ​

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website