Photographic Times 1890

March 22, 2013, 8:57 am

The Photographic Times was an early photography periodical. Its byline was "An Illustrated Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Interests of Artistic and Scientific Photography." This was the cutting-edge of photography at the time.

The 1890 edition of the periodical had a large number of entries, too many for one post here, so I'll split it up into several.

Alvin H. Bradley: A Fair Philadelphian

C.L. Lochman: Liriodendron (Tulip tree Blossoms)

Catharine Weed Barnes: Five O'Clock Tea

Berkeley Allen: A Sylvan Stream

Catharine Weed Barnes: Interior. Residence of William Barnes, Albany, N.Y.

Charles H. Miller: An Old Highway

Edward H. Graves: Palm House

Daniel P. Read: A Torrent

C.H. Gallup: A Fish Story

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Photographic Times 1890, ctd

March 25, 2013, 9:19 am

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Edward Leaming: Moonrise in the Catskills

G. Waldron Smith: Girlhood

Frederick H. Chapin: A Cliff Palace

[this is probably at Mesa Verde]

George Barker: Charlotte street, St. Augustine, Florida

George Hill, Aschylus William Monfort: The Day's Work Done

[two photographers? how does that work?]

H. Edwards-Ficken: Spinners

H.R. Taylor: Sachuest Point

[this is now a National Wildlife Refuge]

J.M. Appleton: Study from Life

John H. Tarbell: The First Lesson in Whittling

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Photographic Times 1890, ctd

March 26, 2013, 9:26 am

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Maximilian Toch: Coconut Palms

Maximilian Toch: On the Ocklawaha, Florida

Maximilian Toch: Cuban Ox-Team

O. Pierre Havens: Tick! Tick!

R. Clinton Fuller: Night-Blooming Cereus

Rev. Herbert Macy: Boys after Suckers

Rudolph Eickemeyer Jr.: The Confidante

Rudolph Eickemeyer Jr.: The Reapers

Rudolph Eickemeyer Jr.: In the Valley of the Beaverkill

Unknown Photographer: A Tree Study

Unknown Photographer: The Poquessing

Unknown Photographer: Thoughts of Puss on Life

W.I. Lincoln Adams: Winter Moonlight

W.I. Lincoln Adams: Christmas Morning in the Woods

W.I. Lincoln Adams: The Edge of the Wood

Walter S. Waterbury: A Brook

William James Stillman: Door of the Duomo of Florence, Italy

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Herbert List

March 27, 2013, 9:35 am

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Herbert List (1903-1975) was a brilliant German photographer with a quite eventful life story. His photographs display a rare level of artistry.

Black Male Nude I, 1935

Dead Trees, 1939

Capri, 1935

[there's enough subtext here to fill a novel]

Grotesque Figure, Park of Palazzo Orsini, Bomarzo, Italy, 1952

Man and Dog, Portofino, 1936

Munich, 1946

Italy, Venice. Piazza San Marco. 1939

[what a brilliant use of light and shadow!]

On the scout for ovenwood , Munich, 1946

Ostia, Italy, 1959

Spirit of Lycabettus I, Athens, 1937

Stairway to Heaven, Rome, 1949

Traffic sign, Löwenbräukeller, Munich, 1946

View from the Window II, Rome, Trastevere, 1953

Prometheus, 1939

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G. G. Bain

March 28, 2013, 8:34 am

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Back to more early 20th century American photos.

Bastille Day celebrations, probably in New York City, 1914

Daisy Harriman addresses a Democratic rally in Union Square, New York City, 1912

Children's pageant at the dedication of the William J. Gaynor Park Playground

and Recreation House in New York City, Dec. 20, 1913

Henrietta Noble, who sought an annulment from her marriage to sailor

William Noble on grounds that he had hypnotized her, 1914

Mrs. Bourke Cockran, wife of New York politician William Bourke Cockran

with Mrs. Eleanor B. Roosevelt, wife of Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.,

Mrs. John Blair (Ida Chester Reid) and others, 1910-1915

Members of the 72nd Pennsylvania Infantry at the Gettysburg Reunion of July 1913, which commemorated the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg

Rebecca Edelsohn after her arrest for attempting to hold an open air mass meeting in Fountain Square, Tarrytown, New York on May 30, without a permit, 1914

Officials of the Poultry and Pigeon Show on the roof of Madison Square Garden in New York City, preparing to release pigeons carrying peace messages for President Wilson in Washington, DC, 1915

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Wiener Photographische Blätter 1894

April 1, 2013, 8:27 am

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Here are the contents from another late 19th century photographic journal - this one from Austria.

Baron Albert De Rothschild: Portrait Study

Baron Nathaniel De Rothschild: Autumn Landscape

Carl Ulrich: From the Tyrol

Dr. Federico Mallmann: Rural Housegarden

Dr. Hugo Henneberg: In Midsummer

Dr. Hugo Henneberg: Still Life

Dr. Hugo Henneberg: November

Dr. Federico Mallmann: Mora-Spieler -in Venedig

Hans Watzek: On the Donau

Julius Strakosch: Storm

L. Hildesheimer: Portrait

John Bergheim: Study of a Head

Ludwig David: Thebes

R. Severinski: From the Prater

Robert Ritter Von Stockert: Bouquet

Oberst K. Sužnević: Mill in the Forest

B. Widimsky: Vienna Blood

Julius Strakosch: In Winter

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Pierre-Louis Pierson

April 2, 2013, 9:47 am

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Pierre-Louis Pierson (1822-1913) was photographer at the French Imperial court. Among his works were portraits of French legislators (many of which can be seen here). He perhaps best known for the hundreds of photos he took (over the course of decades) of the Comtesse di Castiglione, Virginia Oldoini (more about her here). Most of the photos in this set are of her.

Comtesse de Castiglione (1867)

Album des députés au Corps législatif entre 1852-1857 - Hallez-Claparède

Comtesse de Castiglione

Comtesse de Castiglione (1895)

Comtesse de Castiglione

L’Ecstase (1860s)

La Comtesse Reclining in Chinese Robe (1860s)

L'accoudée

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Fred Daniels

April 3, 2013, 9:36 am

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Fred Daniels (1892-1959) was a British photographer. This set of photos was taken of the Margaret Morris dance troupe.

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André Kertész

April 4, 2013, 9:08 am

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André Kertész (1894-1985) was a Hungarian-born art photographer. There's an essay about him on PBS's "American Masters" series (I guess they can get away with calling him an "American" master because he worked in New York for a time).

I'll post his works in several stages, beginning with his earlier work (his career spanned many decades).

Esztergom, Hungary, 1917

Esztergom, Hungary, 1916

Budapest, 1914

Gypsy children kissing, Esztergom, Hungary, 1917

Hungary, 1918

Small Geese, Hungary, 1918

Puszta, Hungary, 1914

The Dancing Faun, 1919

Soldier writing, Gorz, Austria (now Italy), 1915

Sunset, Esztergom, Hungary, 1917

Underwater Swimmer, 1917

Waiting for the ship, Budapest, 1919

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Duchess of Devonshire’s Jubilee Costume Ball 1897

April 5, 2013, 11:11 am

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Here's a bit of fun: the hoi-polloi of Victorian England dressing up to celebrate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. To mark the occasion, the Duchess of Devonshire held a costume ball where the guests (a very exclusive club) were asked to dress in some kind of historical costume. It's interesting to look at what they came up with. A photographic service ("Lafayette Co") took pictures of them all, so we can do just that.

Duchess of Devonshire as Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra

[the hostess herself]

Count Omar Hadik as his ancestor Field Marshall Count Hadik

[no lack of self-esteem here (or is it insecurity?)]

Duchess of Portland as the Duchess of Savoy

Hon Mrs Algernon Bourke as Salammbo the princess of Carthage in Flaubert’s novel

HRH the Duchess of Connaught as Anne of Austria, mother of Louis XIV

Lady Alexandra Colebrooke as Roxana, wife of Alexander the Great

Lady Alice Montagu as Laure de Sade, an ancestor of the Marquis de Sade

[an...interesting choice]

Lady de Trafford as Semiramis, Queen of Assyria

Lady Katherine Scott as Marie Stuart

Lady Gerard as Astarte, Goddess of the Moon

[Astarte was a fertility goddess, not a moon goddess, but never mind]

Lady Alexandra Acheson in hunting costume, period of Louis XV

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Hikaru Iwasaki

April 8, 2013, 9:15 am

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Hikaru Iwasaki was the only Japanese-American to be a full-time staff photographer for the WRA, chronicling the wartime internment of Japanese-Americans. There's a book about him.

Closing of the Jerome Center, Denson, Arkansas. Clara Hasegawa, Jerome resident,

whose new home will be the Rohwer Center. 1944

Closing of the Jerome Center, Denson, Arkansas. Farewell hand clasps as the train bearing 500 Jerome residents leaves for the Gila River Center. 1944

Closing of the Jerome Center, Denson, Arkansas. A group of interested youngsters

view the last showing of the final attraction Sahara in the recently completed

recreation hall at the Jerome Center. 1944

Closing of the Jerome Center, Denson, Arkansas. Farewell wiener roast held in one of the open spaces between blocks the evening before the participants depart for other centers. 1944

Closing of the Jerome Center, Denson, Arkansas. Friends bid goodbye to Harold Oychida who served as car monitor on the June 13th trip to the Gila River. 1944

Closing of the Jerome Center, Denson, Arkansas. Three young students of the Denson High School, in the Jerome Center, exchange addresses. 1944

Closing of the Jerome Center, Denson, Arkansas. Young folks enjoy a final dance

in one of the recreation halls before their departure to other centers. 1944

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Yoshio Kodama and their small son, Junior,

give their passes to Pfc. Courtland Dalheim of the Military Police at the

Heart Mountain Relocation Center, as they leave the gate prior to relocation. 1944

Mr. and Mrs. Sashihara and their children preparing to give their passes

to the Military Police at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center, as they leave

the gate for a new home. Heart Mountain, Wyoming, 1944

Pretty Hideo Takehara, 18-year-old Heart Mountain high school student,

formerly of Los Angeles, California. 1944

Mrs. Mari Yashida looks at her baby through the plate glass window of the nursery, as nurse's aide Nobuko Hirashima returns it to its crib after feeding. Heart Mountain, Wyoming, 1943

The Katayama twins, Itoko and Setsuko, in the 6B class at the Grant School, are shown as they go home for their noon lunch, being directed across the street along with other pupils by the young safety student. Des Moines, Iowa, 1944

The Katayama twins, Itoko and Setsuko, in the 6B class at the Grant School, are shown at recess time with their classmates on the playground. Des Moines, Iowa, 1944

The Katayama twins, Itoko and Setsuko, in the 6B class at the Grant School, are shown with other pupils of Miss Lorraine Lange, their teacher, in a reading lesson. Des Moines, Iowa, 1944

Scene in the Heart Mountain High School library, as Miss Mickey Yabe helps a fellow student with some research work in ancient history. Heart Mountain, Wyoming, 1943

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Edward Linley Sambourne

April 9, 2013, 8:50 am

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Edward Linley Sambourne was an English illustrator and photographer who snapped candid street shots in London and continental European cities, mostly of women and children.

Sambourne also had a darker side.

21 July 1905

Cheniston Gardens, 29 July 1906

Church Street, 2 August 1906

Cromwell Road, 15 May 1907

Church Street, Kensington, May 1906

Cromwell Road, 19 June 1906

Cromwell Road, 26 June 1906

Delft, Holland, 16 April 1906

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Imogen Cunningham

April 10, 2013, 9:51 am

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Imogen Cunningham (1883-1976) was an American art photographer.

Dance 3 (1926)

Cary Grant (1932)

Dream (1910)

Double Image (ca. 1950)

Dream Walking (1968)

Edward Weston and Margrethe Mather (1922)

[these two were also photographers]

Figures (two sisters) (1928)

False Hellebore (1926)

On Mt Rainier I (1915)

On Mt Rainier V (1915)

Phoenix Recumbent (1968)

Self-Portrait (1906)

Portrait of Frida Kahlo (1931)

Three Dancers, Mills College (1929)

Twins with mirror (1923)

Two Callas (1929)

[shades of Georgia O'Keefe]

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Eugène Atget

April 11, 2013, 8:20 am

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Eugène Atget (1857-1927) was a French photographer who specialized in street scenes of Paris.

Chiffonier, 1899-1900

Seller of Lampshades, 1899-1900

Street Paver, 1899-1900

View of interior of a courtyard off Boulevard St. Germain, Paris 1898

Peddler, Place Saint-Médard, 5th District 1899

Fontaine de l’Observatoire, par le sculpteur Carpeaux, jardin Marco-Polo,

vue prise vers le jardin du Luxembourg, 6e arrondissement 1902

Cabaret "At Port Salut," Merchant of shells, Rue des Fosses-Saint-Jacques, 5th District 1903

Street singer and organ player of Barbary 1898

Fireplace, Hôtel Matignon, former Austrian embassy, 57 rue de Varenne, 7th arrodissement, 1905

Paris interior, 1910

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John Thomson

April 12, 2013, 8:59 am

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John Thomson (1837-1921) was a Scottish photographer who worked for a time in the Far East, before returning to England and documenting London street life.