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Départ matinal de RégatesBridal Portrait by Eugene HutchinsonUntitled Cityscape Stairwell & AlleywayHenry Irving as ‘Becket’Etude de Femme (buste)Eleonora Duse„ Vor dem Sturm “I Love “OO”KartoffelernteChild StudyEine KönigstochterBackstrip & title page:  Photographische Mitteilungen- 1906Les TroglodytesRosenTräumereiInterpretive Dancing StudyLes frères BlancsThe StormLovers Lane in WinterEleanoreLes GlaneusesA NaturalistAve MariaA Pleasant WalkMounted Rider at Fox Hunt GatheringEtudeExhibition Poster by Edme CoutySeeking MosesAn Old SaltSanta ClausLa Chute Des FeuillesIm SchilfDaguerre Medal: Souvenir of the Semi-Centennial of PhotographyThe MonochordFarmhand atop Salt Marsh HaystackGetting Baby’s AttentionKodak in CampOxford Street – A Wet DayThe Church or the WorldGerda LundequistOld CroniesPreparing Spring Flowers for MarketIm HafenAlma MaterThe BubbleA Nocturne of New York – Christmas 1915Mrs. N. and ChildPulborough BridgeHamburger – HafenHerbstlandschaft NachtgangReveries of a BachelorBalboa Park: San DiegoTwilight in the Harbor- San FranciscoDer Franciscaner Untitled Landscape with WindmillLa PrièreCover: The Photographic Times: 1902White Mountains, N.H. from Fryeburg MaineWeiẞer AusflugMelancholieWing and WingWäscherin in der DüneChant SacrèSailboat on LakeA Holbein WomanPortrait: Singer & Thespian Dr. Ludwig WüllnerKünstler-studieSibyllaAus VenedigMan Working in AlleywayMoonlight night in WinterAn Eastern PrincessOld Spring at West Point | Kosciuszko’s GardenRedwood Tree GroveHis First LoveChild portraying Betsy RossUntitled Portrait of Two GirlsMédaillonÉtudeChild Gazing in Fish BowlBausch & Lomb Optical CompanyOctober SunshinePortraitstudieMadonnaCampo San MargheritaDiptych: Das alle Binderhaus in Perchtoldsdorf & Das rothe Thor in SpitzThe BlacksmithPortrait StudienShrimpers at Low TideA Village CornerH.P. Robinson, 1887Eine Sioux-Indianerin (Plenty Wounds)Une dame en blancListening to the BirdsManor D’AngoCover: The Photographic Times-Bulletin : 1904Japanese Garden Water Lily StudyObstinationBrooklyn Winter at Prospect Park PlazaAufnahme von Th. und O. Hofmeister in HamburgBeim FasspichenWoman Sewing“How much was that a yard ?”Casablanca — MoroccoGirl ReadingPerfectly HappyKinderjauseAufnahme von Robert Demachy in ParisFrühlingsidyllMotiv aus SuffolkBlumenstraußIm DorfeBords de L’Isère, le soirUn TyrolienSunlit Flower Study

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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