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Italian Village Children Gathered for PortraitBords de L’Isère, le soirLa Chute Des Feuilles | Falling LeavesChurch at ChurubuscoSt. JohnMotiv aus SuffolkJanet BurnetCover: The Photographic Times: 1901Étude de ChienSanta ClausDie KunstfreundeEchinocereus Cactus of unknown SpeciesThe Old HomesteadNetzflickerinEdoardo before a mock-door on an Ancient Roman GraveUntitled Study of Woman Reading to ChildrenTravail du SoirToilSimplicitéAbend an der ArunThe Sugar campLe Stryge; Notre Dame.NymphéeIndependent Order of Odd Fellows Encampment Lights on San Francisco’s Market StreetArch of ConstantineChild reaches for woman holding BabyStrassenklatsch | Street GossipDianaStudieBoys after SuckersCover: 1896 Exposition d’Art Photographique Salon CatalogueThe Bird Cage | Misses WatsonCasablanca — MoroccoEl Capitan | YosemiteAfter the RainThe BubbleA Study in Black and WhiteThe Hudson RiverThe RoundupPorträit StudieThe Kitten’s BreakfastPortfolio Cover: Première Série:  1904Peter Behrens Jugendstil CalendarNight-Blooming CereusWasserlilienNach Hause | HomeUntitled Cityscape Stairwell & AlleywaySirèneRüstung zur AbfahrtAuf Der LandstrasseUne dame en blancInterpretive Dancing StudyThe FanSouvenir De LondresHard LuckTwilight in the Harbor- San FranciscoÉclairciePhotography Competition 1894: ShippingIm SchilfStudy of a NudeSonnabendmarkt in BrüsselBluebeard’s WivesLe Déclin de L’étéÜberschreiten des Rheineises im Januar 1893Bausch & Lomb,  Lenses & ShuttersSur L’EscalierMutterglückStirling CastleSteamboat AlbionRedwood Tree GroveThe ButterflySturmwindMother Cooks at Point O’ Woods Long IslandThe Naver Ceremony | The First AblutionKinderjauseLe Récit d’un AncienHannah Leaving Samuel in TempleOld Spring at West Point | Kosciuszko’s GardenJournal Cover: Die Kunst in der Photographie: 1897-1903St. Martin’s Church — Wet EveningMeadow RoadDavid BelascoMondlandschaftKünstler-studieAm GartenzaunHear dem BellsUn enterrement à VeniseStudienkopfBlumenstraufsAufnahme von Th. und O. Hofmeister, HamburgAuf der Mole in AllingeDiptych: Amour maternel & Bien embarrasséePraying Corn SellersAuf der Landstrasse | On the Country RoadA Stiff PullStilleben Brooklyn BridgeMagdeleineMermaid Study : SubmergedThe BrookWoman SewingAm Comer SeePortratBrooklyn Winter at Prospect Park PlazaHe Never Told His Love   (variant)West Blatchington Mill, SussexAufnahme von Th. und O. Hofmeister in HamburgA Nocturne of New York – Christmas 1915AutomneDryadeMusikCommon Polypody | Christmas FernNettoyageCäciliePêcheuse hollandaise Avant le DépartBeim FasspichenAgnesChrist au tombeau

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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