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Backstrip & title page:  Photographische Mitteilungen- 1906Golden-rodNear MontereyÉtude de Nu | Nude StudyVilla TorloniaIn measured tones subdued and low…A Portrait of Miss Florence KahnBeautyWappingThe Bird Cage | Misses WatsonDiamond Head | LēʻahiBits of Nature: A Series of Ten Photogravures from NatureVers L’Idéal, Jeunes Filles DansantMüssiger Augenblick“How much was that a yard ?”Sainte CécileLe Récit d’un AncienBalboa Park: San DiegoTropical ForestDiptych: Ebbe & Grand Junction CanalReturning From PastureLong-haired Persian CatAus DachauA Japanese FancyLady of the LakeMan Working in AlleywayAus VenedigChild portraying Betsy RossEveningAm Meere | By the SeaLa DaguerréotypomanieDie SchusterStudieA Curtis High School GirlCamera Work & The Photo-SecessionEtude de Femme (buste)Préface by Émile DacierPortraitLe Doigt coupéDisappointedChicago River | Monroe Street BridgeShadows, 1903Oxford Street – A Wet DayAlfred Stieglitz Presents Seven Americans Exhibition CatalogueThe FanShylockPortrait of a Hebrew GentlemanJournal Cover: L’Art Photographique 1899-1900CrépusculeBildnis der Gebrüder HofmeisterThe ButterflySonnenscheinIn a Garden FairBirkenNetzflickerinAtelier – Des Herrn Philipp Ritter Von SchoellerEine Sioux-Indianerin (Plenty Wounds)Cypress Trees on Side of RoadwayExtasy —The little FaunBäuerin aus dem SpreewaldOtto Perutz Lithographic Advertising CardCover: The Photographic Times: 1902Aufnahme von Otto Rau in BerlinHeatherL’Attente | The WaitDiptych: The Evening Hour & Coal TiersLe Stryge; Notre Dame.Janet BurnetLarkspurSanguinaria  (Bloodroot)Portrait de Holland DayLes frères BlancsThe Lily PondA Stiff PullJohn A. Roebling Suspension BridgeKartoffelernteMorgen und AbendSailboats on LakeCrépuscule D’Hiver | Winter TwilightHonolulu, HawaiiChurch at ChurubuscoTravail du SoirThe Sweet Potato FieldCäcilieA Veteran of the ForestWitches’  WoodI Love “OO”Day DreamsHe Never Told His Love   (variant)La Chute Des Feuilles | Falling LeavesL’Hiver, cinquième avenueVienna Camera Club Exhibition CatalogueDaguerre Medal: Souvenir of the Semi-Centennial of PhotographyMusik

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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