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A Child of the OrientÉtude de NuWoman SewingAus DachauAt DuskAgnesCover: The Photographic Times: 1888Marine HollandaiseRachelVeluwe Interior from artist Jan L. Kleintjes’s atelier in HeerdeKinderjauseCommon Polypody | Christmas FernDorothy Tucker with KodakAbend an der ArunLight Effect: Pennsylvania Railroad StationPortratLady of the LakeA Japanese FancyScurrying HomeA Venetian WellA DryadCasablanca — MoroccoMutterglückAus Einem Niederoester.  DorfeThe Lily PondSchafe am FelsenDer KiebitzCamera Work Subscription FormTropical ForestEveningFaust dans son laboratoireFarmhand atop Salt Marsh HaystackDans les fleursA Veteran of the ForestPorträit StudieÉtude de ChienStowing the NetDas SchweigenDie KunstfreundeFriends” Fine day in London “Winged Dancer on StageAccordant sa harpeCharge de CuirassiersSt. Peter’s BasilicaSailboats on LakeReveries of a BachelorExposedA Venetian CanalEn ÉtéSur la PorteJanet BurnetMan Working in AlleywayUrahne, DuhnenThe Gates of YosemiteLes Bouleaux argentésStudieA Winter Sky – Central ParkJapanese Tea Garden Bridge : Moanalua ParkSummer DaysKinderportratThe Lone LagoonLetzte HeimfahrtMaritime StudieIn measured tones subdued and low…Vienna Camera Club Exhibition CatalogueÉventailFire in Oxford StreetHeimkehr Der FischerBouquet de grèvesÉtude Thru the Back WindowDryadeSilhouetteMelodyWaldlichtungBäuerin aus dem SpreewaldÉtude de plein Air Auf Der LandstrasseLa Chute Des FeuillesCover: 1896 Exposition d’Art Photographique Salon CatalogueNettoyageA Chautauqua StudentKrippe      (The Manger)The Sugar campPierrot PhotographeLa ToiletteSweet SpringtimeAbend In Der LaguneFrom AlabamaChiantiLovers Lane in WinterAn Old-Fashioned WinterETHELFleurs d’OrangerTräumerei1908 Kodak Photographic Advertising Contest First Prize Winner, Amateur Class

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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