Category: photography, photographie, fotografia, fotografía, Fotografie

Barbara Hoyer by Artur Nikodem

Artur Nikodem (1870–1940) ~ Barbara (Hoyer) with an orange, Innsbruck, Austria, 1928 | src OstLicht Auktionen

Trained in Munich by Defregger and Kaulbach, the Innsbruck artist enjoyed international success as a landscape painter from 1920 until his career ended with the Nazi takeover. He did not use photography for templates, but as a medium in its own right and experimented in many photographic genres and pictorial languages in his mostly very small-format prints; yet his astonishing photographic oeuvre did not receive attention until the 1980s. This photo features the artist’s second wife Barbara Hoyer (1907–1970), who posed for many of his staged photographs.

Artur Nikodem (1870–1940) ~ Barbara with an orange, Innsbruck, Austria, 1928 | src OstLicht Auktionen

Portrait still-life by Imboden

Martin Imboden (1893–1935) ~ Stillleben, Wien, um 1930 | src Ostlicht Auktionen

The Swiss cabinetmaker and talented amateur photographer Martin Imboden received important impulses in 1929 when he visited the legendary ‘FIFO’, the international exhibition of the German Werkbund. He accentuated his pictorial language, which was oriented towards the New Objectivity, with tight cropping and strong contrasts. During his most productive years as a photographer he lived in Vienna, where his photographs appeared in magazines such as ‘Der Kuckuck’ and ‘Die Bühne’. Despite favorable reactions, he did not want to make photography his profession and concentrated on selected photo projects as an amateur.

Martin Imboden (1893–1935) ~ Still life, Vienna, ca. 1930. Vintage silver print | src Ostlicht Auktionen

Model in jewellery by Dalí

Jewelry by Salvador Dalí modeled by Madelle Hegeler, June 1959, by an anonymous American (?) photographer | src Fostinum

Cat portraits by Edward Weston

Edward H. Weston ~ Johnny [tortoise-shell cat on driftwood, plywood backdrop], 1944 or 1945 | src Sotheby’s & CCP
Edward H. Weston ~ Franky [cat in basket, right paw dangling downward], 1945 | src CCP ~ Univ. of Arizona
Edward H. Weston ~ Franky (?) [tabby cat lying in basket], 1945 | src CCP ~ Univ. of Arizona
Edward H. Weston ~ Franky [tabby cat lying on rough dark surface] 1945 | src CCP ~ Univ. of Arizona
Edward H. Weston ~ Mary [kitten on clock], 1945 | src CCP ~ University of Arizona
Edward H. Weston ~ Marco Polo [cat on stool], 1944 | src CCP ~ Univ. of Arizona
Edward H. Weston ~ Jasmine and Marco Polo [two cats on driftwood], 1944 | src CCP ~ Univ. of Arizona
Edward H. Weston ~ Hank [tabby cat perched with front feet on edge of wheelbarrow, looking upward], 1945 | src CCP
Edward H. Weston ~ Jo-Jo and picture frame [cat in picture frame below large-leafed shrub, smaller foliage below], 1945 | src CCP

The family of cats by Edward Weston

Edward H. Weston ~ Cats on Boxes [with Mexican fish gourd, ceramic cat and piggy bank], 1944 | src CCP ~ Univ. of Arizona
Edward H. Weston ~ Cats on Boxes [with Mexican painted plate], 1944 | src CCP ~ Univ. of Arizona
Edward H. Weston ~ The Big Family [kittens in basket], 1944 | src CCP ~ Univ. of Arizona
Edward H. Weston ~ Cats [four kittens looking in through window, cat stretching below inside box], 1944 | src CCP
Edward H. Weston ~ Cats [Jasmine, Keddsy, and kitten], 1944 | src CCP ~ Univ. of Arizona
Edward H. Weston ~ Cats [cats on woodbox], 1944 | src CCP ~ Univ. of Arizona

Morgan dancer with tambourine

Arnold Genthe (1869-1942) ~ Marion Morgan dancer, 1914-1927 (detail)
Arnold Genthe (1869-1942) ~ Marion Morgan dancer, 1914-1927. Nitrate negative | src Library of Congress
Arnold Genthe (1869-1942) ~ Marion Morgan dancer, 1914-1927 (detail)
Arnold Genthe (1869-1942) ~ Marion Morgan dancer, 1914-1927. Nitrate negative | src Library of Congress
Arnold Genthe (1869-1942) ~ Marion Morgan dancer, 1914-1927 (detail)
Arnold Genthe (1869-1942) ~ Marion Morgan dancer, 1914-1927. Nitrate negative | src Library of Congress

Pictorialist portrait by Weston

Edward H. Weston (1886 – 1958) ~ Untitled ca. 1917. Gelatin silver print | src SF MoMA
Edward H. Weston (1886 – 1958) ~ Untitled ca. 1917 (detail)