Category: photography, photographie, fotografia, fotografía, Fotografie

‘Alice and the Fairies’, 1917

This picture showing Frances Griffiths with four dancing fairies was taken in 1917 by Elsie Wright, 16, in the village of Cottingley, West Yorkshire. The two girls, like so many children then and now, believed in fairies and set out to prove their existence. They staged them with paper cut-outs at the end of Elsie’s garden. | src SSPL – Getty Images via The Sun
Alice and the Fairies, taken by Elsie Wright, shows Frances Griffiths with the fairies, made from coloured paper cutouts and hat pins. July, 1917. | src Dominic Winter Auctioneers via The Guardian and Flickr
The images of the Cottingley Fairies were taken between July and September 1917 by 16-year-old Elsie Wright and her nine-year-old cousin Frances Griffiths, in the village of Cottingley, near Bingley in Yorkshire.

Landscape with Foxgloves, 1903

(top) Minna Keene :: Mountainous Landscape with Foxgloves, 1903. Carbon print. The Minna Keene and Violet Keene Perinchief Collection. | src Ryerson Image Centre
(bottom) Minna Keene :: Mountainous Landscape with Foxgloves, 1903. Carbon print with hand retouching. The Minna Keene and Violet Keene Perinchief Collection. | src Ryerson Image Centre

Eastern Beauty, ca. 1933

Violet Keene Perinchief (1893-1967) :: Eastern Beauty. A portrait of a Chinese Lady, silver gelatin print mounted on exhibition board, Toronto, ca. 1933. [Original photograph signed lower left in pencil: Violet Keene] | src Bonhams
Violet Keene Perinchief (1893-1967) :: Eastern Beauty. A portrait of a Chinese Lady, silver gelatin print mounted on exhibition board, Toronto, ca. 1933. [Original photograph signed lower left in pencil: Violet Keene] | src Bonhams
Violet Keene Perinchief (1893-1967) :: Eastern Beauty. A portrait of a Chinese Lady, silver gelatin print mounted on exhibition board, Toronto, ca. 1933. [Original photograph signed lower left in pencil: Violet Keene] | src Bonhams
Violet Keene Perinchief (1893-1967) :: Eastern Beauty. A portrait of a Chinese Lady, silver gelatin print mounted on exhibition board, Toronto, ca. 1933. [Original photograph signed lower left in pencil: Violet Keene] | src Bonhams

This portrait is an example of one of the many that Violet Keene became famous for. She established and ran a studio in Toronto for her mother’s work from 1933, and later a studio for her own photography. She studied photography under her mother’s guidance from an early age, and this portrait has many of the classic Minna Keene attributes of her portraits taken in Cape Town around 1910, notably the floral background and position of the face looking away from the camera. Violet exhibited her work around the world and had a loyal following. [quoted from source]

Beautiful like Kaloma

“Beautiful like Kaloma“. A semi-nude woman scantily clad in a see-through silk veil. The model, like Kaloma, is standing with both hands in front of her. Original 1910-1920s French Real Photo Postcard. | src eBay

Nude in acrobatic pose

French or German nude dancer in acrobatic pose, 1920-1930s. Original photo postcard. (Künstler foto stamp on lower right margin) | src eBay

Decorative Study: Pomegranates

Minna Keene (née Bergmann, Canadian born Germany, 1861-1943) :: Pomegranates, ca. 1910. Carbon print with some details reduced by hand. | src Stephen Bulger Gallery
Minna Keene (née Bergmann, Canadian born Germany, 1861-1943) :: Pomegranates, ca. 1910. Carbon print with some details reduced by hand. | src Stephen Bulger Gallery
Minna Keene (née Bergmann, Canadian born Germany, 1861-1943) :: Pomegranates, ca. 1910. Carbon print with some details reduced by hand. | src Stephen Bulger Gallery
Minna Keene (née Bergmann, Canadian born Germany, 1861-1943) :: Pomegranates (aka Decorative Study), ca. 1910. Green carbon print by Minna Keene. | src The Royal Photographic Society Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, London via Getty Images

The subject of this photograph is believed to be of Violet Keene, Minna Keene’s daughter, according to Getty Images.

Minna Keene (née Bergmann, Canadian born Germany, 1861-1943) :: Decorative Study nº 1. Pomegranates, Cape Town, South Africa, ca. 1906. Carbon print, mounted on exhibition board. Original photograph. | src Bonhams

A fine example of a signed exhibition-quality image of one of Minna Keene’s most famous of images, taken at her home in Cape Town. Using her young daughter Violet as the model, she created an iconic Pre-Raphaelite image, combining the beauty of a young girl with nature. This image was included in the famous Tate London Exhibition in 2016, Painting with Light alongside Julia Margaret Cameron, Millais, Emerson, Goodall, Hacker, Rossetti, and others. In 1911, “Pomegranates” was awarded Picture of the Year at the London Photographic Salon. [quoted from source]

Minna Keene (née Bergmann, Canadian born Germany, 1861-1943) :: Decorative Study nº 1. Pomegranates, Cape Town, South Africa, ca. 1906. Carbon print, mounted on exhibition board. Original photograph. | src Bonhams

Amelia Earhart, Toronto, 1932

Violet Keene Perinchief :: Amelia Earhart, Toronto, 1932. Gelatin silver print. | src The Ryerson Image Centre
Violet Keene Perinchief :: Amelia Earhart, Toronto, 1932. Gelatin silver negative digitally reversed. | src Ryerson Image Centre
Violet Keene Perinchief :: Amelia Earhart, Toronto, 1932. Gelatin silver negative (left) and gelatin silver negative digitally reversed (right). | src Ryerson Image Centre
Violet Keene Perinchief :: Amelia Earhart, Toronto, 1932. Gelatin silver negative (left) and gelatin silver negative digitally reversed (right). | src Ryerson Image Centre

African Appeal, ca. 1935

Violet Keene Perinchief :: African Appeal, circa 1935. Phyllis Marshall. Gelatin silver print with hand retouching. | src Ryerson Image Centre
Violet Keene Perinchief :: African Appeal, circa 1935. Phyllis Marshall. Gelatin silver print with hand retouching. | src Ryerson Image Centre
Violet Keene Perinchief :: African Appeal, circa 1935. Phyllis Marshall. Signed, in pencil, au print recto. | src Stephen Bulger Gallery
Violet Keene Perinchief :: African Appeal, circa 1935. Phyllis Marshall. Signed, in pencil, au print recto. | src Stephen Bulger Gallery