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A Holbein WomanThe Dice PlayersMy Niece and her PetHard Luck„ Weisse Segel “StillebenSundownIrisAvant le DépartCurtis High School GirlCover: The American Amateur Photographer: 1891Weiblicher AktThe Bird Cage | Misses WatsonReliquienKindergruppeLe Coquillage | The ShellSamuel and EliEveningAuf Dem FeldeBrooklyn BridgeRouenHear dem BellsThe Old HomesteadAuf dem FeldeDas Goldfisch-GlasSimplicitéPhotograph-New YorkJ.F.W. HerschelPortfolio CoverVers L’Idéal, Jeunes Filles DansantA Portrait of Miss Florence KahnAt the Chute in the MineMme Colette WillyBackstrip & title page:  Photographische Mitteilungen- 1906Cypress Trees on Side of RoadwayDianaWhere the sunset trails its splendor o’er the waters of the WestEleonora DuseProgram Cover: Lytrit style portrait by StraussJapanese Hill-and-Pond Garden IslandAutomneEleonore DuseEine Sioux-Indianerin (Plenty Wounds)The BlacksmithCrépusculeSouvenir De LondresEugene R. Hutchinson Self-PortraitJohn A. Roebling Suspension BridgeMignonStowing the NetNach Hause | HomePortrait StudienThe KissBeach With View of HarborMoonrise in the CatskillsA Curtis High School GirlTeestilleben, III. FassungNächtlicher RittStilleben PeterThe PearlLe ZélandaisBausch & Lomb,  Lenses & ShuttersMutterglückSummer DaysDer KiebitzLe DevinUntitled Landscape with WindmillWäscherin in der DüneTravail du SoirWallfahrerÉtudeSumpflandschaft Urahne, DuhnenKrippe      (The Manger)WaldbachKritikProfil PerduSchmied  Am AmbosPortratThe MonochordHow Things GrowProjet d’ÉventailI Love “OO”L’Étang D’Overmeire | Lake of DonkmeerÉtude de Nu A L’atelierETHELDrifting

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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