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Steamboat AlbionThe PoolPortrait: Singer & Thespian Dr. Ludwig WüllnerThe WreckMadonnaSummer DaysThe Fading Smile of Closing DayÉtude de FemmeAtlantaÉtudeOtto Perutz Lithographic Advertising CardSt. Peter’s BasilicaSicilian Study, TaorminaUn BivouacToilLes Bouleaux argentésLa DaguerréotypomanieSt. Martin’s Church — Wet EveningMoonlight night in WinterChrist au tombeauCover: 1896 Exposition d’Art Photographique Salon CataloguePortrait  (Heinrich Kühn)Diptych: Holzfammlerin & Eine Frage„Rodin“    MDCCCCIJournal Cover: L’Art Photographique 1899-1900SymmetriaUntitled Bare-Shouldered Portrait of Young WomanVengeancePortfolio Cover: Eastman Photographic Exhibition 1897Hawaiian Tree StudySturmwindChild StudyTable  (Index) :  L’Épreuve Photographique- 1904Cover: The Photographic Times-Bulletin : 1904At the Chute in the MineJournal Cover: Die Kunst in der Photographie: 1897-1903Ox-drawn Cart on StreetClair de lune sur la merWasserlilienStudienkopfThe Broads ⎯ Postwick GroveBausch & Lomb Optical CompanyCamera Work Subscription FormAn Italian PeasantLa ToiletteMeadow RoadTemps orageuxAn Impression—The River MedlockEin RitterÉtude de plein Air Boys after SuckersCampo San MargheritaTwo Towers — New YorkKodak Girl in Sheep FieldIn a Garden FairDorothy Tucker with KodakPortraitCäcilie” Fine day in London “Bull or Cow in Scottish Highlands  ✻Sicilianische BriggCypress Trees on Side of RoadwayTrostGraduation Portrait: Coralyn M. ChannenRest HavenBords de L’Isère, le soirSirèneFrühlingsidyllTitle Page: Sun & Shade: A Photographic Record of Events 1888Cover: The Photographic Times: 1888Seeking MosesSur L’EscalierLandschaftsstudieFriendsBildnis der Gebrüder HofmeisterL’Hiver, cinquième avenuePortraitEl Capitan | YosemiteTravail du SoirNear MontereyLower Broadway  N.Y. CityBeautyEine Sioux-Indianerin (Plenty Wounds)Peter Behrens Jugendstil CalendarCrépusculeLarkspurChumsThe Sweet Potato FieldAuslaufendes BootBausch & Lomb,  Lenses & ShuttersA Portrait of Miss Florence KahnDas Heilige AbendmahlTo-Morrow will be FridayKritikPortrait-Studie

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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