Portrait of a King, 1968
Author: un regard oblique
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Water Lilies, ca. 1906
«The critic Charles H. Caffin described this photograph by de Meyer as “a veritable dream of loveliness.” It is one of several floral still lifes de Meyer made in London around 1906–9, when he was in close contact with Alvin Langdon Coburn, a fellow photographer and member of the Linked Ring. Both men were inspired by the Belgian writer Maurice Maeterlinck’s 1906 book The Intelligence of Flowers, a mystical musing on the vitality of plant life. De Meyer exhibited several of his flower studies, including this platinum print, at Stieglitz’s influential Photo-Secession galleries in New York in 1909. The image also appeared as a photogravure in an issue of Stieglitz’s art and photography journal Camera Work.» [Camera Work, issue nº 24, 1908]
src The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Alfred Stieglitz Collection
Rose blanche et vase, 1951-1952
Signed, dated 1952 and dedicated in ink below image. This rich autographed print, one of Sudek’s recurring motifs, was a wedding gift to a friend and his wife. A variant is conserved in the collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario. | src Binoche et Giquello via l’œil de la photographie
The Shadows on the Wall, 1906
Focusing his camera not on a still life per se, but on its evanescent trace, de Meyer creates a composition that approaches abstraction. (…) Here, the shadow of a vase of flowers cast onto the wall has the effect of a Japanese lacquered screen. | src Alfred Stieglitz Collection, MetMuseum
Bread and Egg, 1951
Composition à la poire, 1951
Nature morte à l’oeuf, 1950s
Rose in glass, 1950
Flower and Leaf in a glass, 1963
Sculptress Hana Wichterlová
