Photography, English -- 19th century;York Minster;York (England);Cityscapes;Architecture
Notes: Talbot's atmospheric view of York Minster rising above Lop Lane dates from the mid-1840s, the crucial decade in which photography rapidly advanced both in France and England from its earlier experimental origins. As the English inventor of...
Remarks: Exiled to the island of Jersey, Hugo took up photography, producing group portraits of family members, acquaintances, servants, and visitors...
Photography, French -- 19th century;Paris (France);Jardin des Tuileries (Paris, France);Sculpure;Théodon, Jean-Baptiste, 1646-1713. Arria et Paetus;Lepautre, Pierre, ca. 1660-1744. Arria et Paetus
Remarks: This picture was part of a commission Nègre received in 1859 to photograph the sculptures in the Tuileries Garden. Nègre made the photographs in June, 1859. The photographs were to be made into heliogravures and published in a monograph...
Photography, American -- 19th century;Girls;Figures -- Female;Portraits;Landscapes
Remarks: One of the best known images from Stieglitz's early period, reprinted at a later stage in his life. For earlier print from the same negative, see 1999.20.1
Photography, American -- 19th century;Bull Run, 1st Battle of, Va., 1861;Landscapes;United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865;Bull Run (Loudoun County-Fairfax County and Prince William County, Va.)
Prints, American -- 19th century;Photography -- Studios and dark rooms;Interior spaces;Advertisements;Brady, Mathew B., 1823 (ca.)-1896
Remarks: From Frank Leslie's Magazine, Nov. 1854. This mid-19th-Century advertisement depicts the reception saloon, dressing room, and operating rooms of Brady's gallery in New York City
Photography, French -- 19th century;Ocean;Ships;Seascapes
Notes: Le Gray's Brig on the Water created a sensation when it was first shown in London and Paris at the exhibitions of the Photographic Society and the Société de Photographie in 1856 and 1857. In this image Le Gray appears to have conquered...
Photography, German -- 20th century;Children -- Portraits;Girls;Portraits -- Female;Kettles;Tables
ARTstor Pilot: 2005
From Camera Work, Vol. 30 (1910), Plate no. X
The sitter was Brigitte Wenz. The photograph was taken about 1908 and was reproduced using the photogravure process in Camera Works vol. 30, 1910 plate no. X
Photography, American -- 20th century;Architecture;Staircases;Coburn, Alvin Langdon, 1882-1966
Attr. to William H. Orison Underwood
Remarks: Underwood was a cousin of Alvin Langdon Coburn and is known to have worked and traveled with Coburn. Because of the closeness between the two and the similarity in their styles, there are some...
Photography, English -- 19th century;Cityscapes;Mosques;Travel;Middle East;Cairo (Egypt)
In: Egypt, Sinai, and Jerusalem : a series of twenty photographic views / Francis Frith with descriptions by Mrs. Poole and Reginald Stuart Poole. -- London : William Mackenzie,[1860?] -- [21] leaves, [20] leaves of plates : ill. 76...
In: Egypt, Sinai, and Jerusalem : a series of twenty photographic views / Francis Frith with descriptions by Mrs. Poole and Reginald Stuart Poole. --...
