The National Gallery of Art in Washington will present Remember Me: Picturing African Americans in Early Photography from November 7, 2026, to March 14, 2027. The landmark exhibition gathers nearly 70 rare nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century photographs, many from the Ross J. Kelbaugh collection acquired in 2023, shown publicly for the first time. Through daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes and albumen prints, the show traces how Black Americans used the camera as a tool of emancipation and self-representation. Works by pioneering photographers including James Presley Ball, Glenalvin Goodridge and Augustus Washington feature alongside modern studios led by Addison Scurlock and James Van Der Zee. Curated by Diane Waggoner and Sarah Greenough, it is billed as a major reconsideration of early American photography.