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Eben HoldenPortraitKritikChild Gazing in Fish BowlHolzsammler im SchneeUntitled Cityscape Stairwell & AlleywayA Portrait of Miss Florence KahnHerbstzeitlosenTitle Page: Sun & Shade: A Photographic Record of Events 1888Young Girl At PianoAuf der DüneAm LinnenschrankCover: The Photographic Times: 1888Alma MaterEn ÉtéZaandamBivouac aux Avant-PostesPraying Corn SellersAtelier – Des Herrn Philipp Ritter Von SchoellerPulborough BridgeSonnenscheinEtudeA Venetian WellMüssiger AugenblickAn Italian PeasantFigure TragiqueDürrensee mit dem Monte CristalloCanal bei DelftPortraitOld CroniesWinterStradivarius Dissected …Lesender KnabeGazaleh“Huntress” | Harry Hemphill | Drapery DancerSpringPortratTropical ForestCamera Work Subscription FormGerda LundequistThe Fairy TaleMermaid SwimmingAtlantaThe Lily PondCover: The Photographic Times: 1902A Stormy Night in TownBoy and GoldfishRequiemStreetscapeParisDorothy Tucker with FanThe Hudson RiverTo Frank O. Cozzo: Male Nude Figure Study in ProfileÉclaircieAt Lake ComoKartoffelernteWinding the BobbinsStowing the NetGetting Baby’s AttentionThe Edge of the MoorBoys after SuckersPortrait of a Hebrew GentlemanDianaLesende HolländerinOn the ElbeLa DaguerréotypomanieSimplicitéRedwood Tree GroveMondlandschaftPortrait de Holland DayNovembreDas SchweigenMadone à L’EnfantÉtude de ChienGood-nightGegenlichtaufnahmeSteamboat AlbionJohn Frederick William HerschelIm DorfeNächtlicher RittCover: The American Amateur Photographer: 1891A Spot for ReflectionsAccordant sa harpeLower Broadway  N.Y. CityÉventailCover: The Photographic Times: 1901New York by NightBlumenstraufsH.P. Robinson, 1887Portrait D’HommeStaubiger WegInterpretive Dancing StudyÉtude de Nu A L’atelierA Cliff PalaceCupidA Village CornerLe Bénédicité | The BlessingPêcheuse hollandaise ETHELSirèneHolländerinAuf Dem KirchhhofDavid BelascoPortrait

Bringing to Light the Growth and Artistic Vision of 19th & 20th Century Photography

  • L’Art Photographique: 1899-1900
  • Pictorial Photographs : A Record of the Photographic Salon of 1895
  • Photographisches Centralblatt: 1898
L’Art Photographique: 1899-1900 Pictorial Photographs : A Record of the Photographic Salon of 1895 Photographisches Centralblatt: 1898
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The argument over whether photography should be considered an art form seems laughable to us today. Yet, beginning in the 1880s and lasting into the 20th century, members of amateur photographic clubs and societies the world over deemed the topic of artistic photography worthy of a decades-long shouting match. With several notable exceptions, photographic imagery in the 19th century was utilitarian in purpose—documenting people and places—and usually for a fee. Aesthetic stagnation and conformity was often the result. Market forces toward the end of the century changed this. A new syntax emerged in the language of photography with the introduction of the dry plate, advanced cameras and lenses, . . .

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