Monday, May 22, 2017

Modes and Mannerisms of Early Photography

Oscar Gustave Rejlander
Infant Photography gives the Painter an Additional Brush
ca. 1856
albumen print
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Claude-Marie Ferrier
Model house for Families designed by HRH Prince Albert
for the Great Exhibition of 1851, London 

salted paper print
Royal Collection, Windsor

William Henry Fox Talbot
Articles of china
ca. 1844
salted paper print
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

THE EVENING STAR

Tonight, for the first time in many years,
there appeared to me again
a vision of the earth's splendor:

in the evening sky
the first star seemed
to increase in brilliance
as the earth darkened

until at last it could grow no darker.
And the light, which was the light of death,
seemed to restore to earth

its power to console. There were
no other stars. Only the one
whose name I knew

as in my other life I did her
injury: Venus,
star of the early evening,

to you, I dedicate
my vision, since on this blank surface

you have cast enough light
to make my thought
visible again.

 Louise Glück, from the volume Averno (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006)

Eugène Durieu
Study of a model
ca. 1850-57
salted paper print
George Eastman House, Rochester New York

Charles Nègre
Family Group
1854
salted paper print
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Oscar Gustave Rejlander
Madonna and Child with St John the Baptist
ca. 1860
albumen silver print
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Oscar Gustave Rejlander
Head of John the Baptist on a Charger
1855
albumen print
Royal Collection, Windsor 
(purchased by Queen Victoria in 1869)

Étienne-Jules Marey
Movements in Pole-vaulting
ca. 1885-95
gelatin silver print
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Étienne-Jules Marey
Arab Horse Galloping
1887
gelatin silver print
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Guido Rey
Dutch Interior (after Vermeer)
ca. 1895
platinum print
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

attributed to James Anderson
View of the Tiber and Castel Sant'Angelo, Rome
1880s
carbon print
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Arnold Genthe
Merchant and Bodyguard, Old Chinatown, San Francisco
ca. 1896-1906
gelatin silver print
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Louis Fleckenstein
People riding a carousel
ca. 1910
gum bichromate print
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Fédèle Azari
Shadow of a blimp near Milan
ca. 1914-29
gelatin silver print
Getty Museum, Los Angeles