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Aufnahmen von H.W. Müller in HamburgH.P. Robinson, 1887Icy NightPortrait of a Hebrew GentlemanUntitled Landscape with WindmillLa Lampe FileMaritime StudieThe Dice PlayersBeppoFamily in an Explosion of LightNetzflickerinAt Lake Como“Huntress” | Harry Hemphill | Drapery DancerLes GlaneusesPêcheuse hollandaise Not Oscar Wilde: Actor Henry Miller in “The Only Way”Un enterrement à VeniseZaandamAtelier – Des Herrn Philipp Ritter Von SchoellerSunday Bible Drama : Camp Sidney LanierStilles GlückPortfolio Cover: Eastman Photographic Exhibition 1897A Study in Black and WhiteSpringTrostMermaid SunbathingHerbstlandschaft Millicent et DanielThe Fading Smile of Closing DayChild PortraitIndependent Order of Odd Fellows Encampment Lights on San Francisco’s Market StreetFrench Bronze Art-Nouveau Photographic MedalThe Disruption of the Church of ScotlandAuslaufendes BootAuprès du MoulinThe Old HomesteadAuf Dem KirchhhofGetting Baby’s AttentionMichel (Étude) An Italian PeasantThe Amateur Photographer Card GameStowing the NetEleanoreThe Edge of the MoorMüssiger AugenblickEin RitterVengeanceThe DancerVilla TorloniaHamburger FleetUntitled Study of Woman Reading to ChildrenVorfrühlingMadone moderneThe Sugar campThe Bird Cage | Misses WatsonWest Blatchington Mill, SussexCover: The Photographic Times: 1902Rusthall QuarryEine Sioux-Indianerin (Plenty Wounds)Portrait de Holland DayLesender KnabeDianaCatalogue: Washington Salon and Art Photographic Exhibition of 1896Brooklyn Winter at Prospect Park PlazaCamera Work & The Photo-SecessionCrépuscule1908 Kodak Photographic Advertising Contest First Prize Winner, Amateur ClassErnteNachtgangStudy of a NudeHawaiian Tree StudyOx Cart -SunsetOld CroniesOtto Perutz Lithographic Advertising CardFruits of the EarthA Street in the Black ForestWinter at the StationAssociation Belge De Photographie: Deuxième Exposition Internationale D’Art Photographique PosterIrisRouenChild StudyLet the Children KodakA Little PrincessListening to the BirdsNächtlicher RittAutomneDorothy Tucker with FanUn Cantique La Partie de DésÉclaircieCurvesÉtude en BrunAt DuskFountain – Market Place, Aix-les-BainsStatue of Liberty at NightCigarette Girl — A Poster Design

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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