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TapisserieHarbor with Ships„ Vor dem Sturm “Ein Regentag in ParisA Venetian WellSouvenir De LondresSpringEdenNude in DarknessHorace Traubel: Roundel PortraitCover: The American Amateur Photographer: 1891Independent Order of Odd Fellows Encampment Lights on San Francisco’s Market StreetAtlantaProjet d’ÉventailPortrait de Holland DayÉtude de NuThe Amateur Photographer Card GameThe Loop | Georgetown Loop Railroad- ColoradoSonnabendmarkt in BrüsselLa Vanne | The WinnowsCarollingBuilding the Union TerminalH.P. Robinson, 1887Bausch & Lomb Optical CompanyParisThe MonochordEtude de Femme (buste)Sir John Frederick William HerschelEine Sioux-Indianerin (Plenty Wounds)AutumnThe Lone LagoonJournal Cover: Photographisches CentralblattNach Hause | HomeAve MariaPortrait StudienA Child of the OrientAuf der Mole in AllingeEn CampagneDiptych: Holzfammlerin & Eine FrageUn Cantique Étude A L’AtelierPortrait D’HommeJournal Cover: L’Art Photographique 1899-1900Cover: 1896 Exposition d’Art Photographique Salon CatalogueToilHear dem BellsThe FanDie SchusterDianaRauhfrostPortfolio Cover: Première Série:  1904Chicago River | Monroe Street BridgeFrom the “Photographic Journal of a Baby.”Alma MaterAuf dem FeldeGerda LundequistFamily in an Explosion of LightUn enterrement à VeniseMignonReliquienThe BonfireA Winter Sky – Central ParkStillebenDiptych: Prélude & Une MuseUncle Sam is Proud of Bausch & Lomb Lenses and ShuttersErnte: variantNetzflickerinnenDaguerre Medal: Souvenir of the Semi-Centennial of PhotographyIn der DüneVeluwe Interior: Artist Jan Kleintjes’s Heerde AtelierChrist au tombeauBirkenEdoardo before a mock-door on an Ancient Roman GraveDiptych: Ebbe & Grand Junction CanalEleonora DuseEtudeWest Blatchington Mill, SussexPortraitVillage NewsDorothy Tucker with KodakPortraitOn A Dutch ShoreWeiẞer AusflugMrs. N. and ChildAuf der DüneSpringBords de L’Isère, le soirMeditationAuprès du MoulinIrisLe Bénédicité | The BlessingWinter EveningOxford Street – A Wet DayFire in Oxford StreetSonnenstrahlenHawaiian Rice Paddy LandscapeThe Daguerre MonumentYoung Girl At PianoLe ZélandaisA Stiff PullAufnahme von Otto Rau in Berlin

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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