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Photographic Times 1890
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...
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Photographic Times 1890, ctd
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...
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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...
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Herbert List
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,...
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G. G. Bain
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...
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Wiener Photographische Blätter 1894
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...
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Pierre-Louis Pierson
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...
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Fred Daniels
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
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...
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Duchess of Devonshire’s Jubilee Costume Ball 1897
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...
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Hikaru Iwasaki
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...
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Edward Linley Sambourne
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...
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Imogen Cunningham
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...
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Eugène Atget
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...
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John Thomson
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. A Second hand furniture shop in London 1877...
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Duchess of Devonshire’s Jubilee Costume Ball 1897
Previous post on this occasion here. Lady Margaret Innes-ker as Lady Eglinton and Lady Victoria Innes-ker as Elizabeth Linley after minatures by Cosway Lady Margaret Villiers as Monsieur’s wife Madame,...
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Berenice Abbott
Berenice Abbott was an American photographer who worked mostly in New York City. 115 Jay Street Brooklyn New York, 1936 4th Avenue, Brooklyn, 1936 Blossom Restaurant, 103 Bowery, 1935 Bread Store, 259...
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Henry Peach Robinson
More photos from this English photographer. Previous set here. Maude and Ethel, daughters of the photographer, 1868 Morning Mist, 1902 Morning and Evening, 1902 Not Easter Rusthall Quarry She Never...
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I'm out of town visiting relatives until Monday April 22 - no further posts until then.Richard
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Eva Besnyö
Eva Besnyö (1910-2003) was a Hungarian-born photographer who lived in the Netherlands for much of her life. More about her here and here. Amsterdam, 1951 Docks Expo 37, France, 1937 Girl on table,...
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