Portrait of an Infant (created with images from the Hughes Collection, University of Maryland, Baltimore County).

Hughes Remix

In conjunction with the 2014 SPE National Conference theme “Collaborative Exchanges: Photography in Dialogue,” The Special Collections Department of the Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery and the Department of Visual Arts at UMBC offered the images of the Hughes Company Glass Negatives Collection for reinterpretation and reinvention. Participants were invited to remix, reinvent, reinterpret and reimagine the images in the archive of Baltimore street scenes, promotional and advertising photographs, businesses, churches, schools, monuments, factories, machinery and portraits. Each screen resolution image is archived in the UMBC Albin O. Kuhn Library and Gallery’s Special Collections and was presented at various venues during the SPE 2014 conference.


Portrait of a Soldier (created with images from the Hughes Collection, University of Maryland, Baltimore County).