Alvin L. Coburn (1882–1966) :: ‘Toodles (Elsie Thomas)’, ca. 1908. Gelatin silver print, printed in the 1980s | Ostlicht Auktion 2023
Coburn was given his first camera at the age of eight and was introduced to photography by his cousin Fred Holland Day. As early as 1902 he became a member of the New York Photo-Secession initiated by Alfred Stieglitz, and two years later his first pictures appeared in Stieglitz’s magazine “Camera Work”. A vintage print of this beautiful motif is hold at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), there titled and dated. Coburn also made autochromes of the same model, showing the red colour of her kimono.
Alvin Langdon Coburn (1882–1966) :: ‘Toodles (Elsie Thomas)’, ca. 1908 | Ostlicht Auktion 2023Alvin Langdon Coburn :: Elsie Thomas in a Kimono sitting on a Hammock, ca.1908. AutochromeAlvin Langdon Coburn :: Elsie Thomas in a Red Kimono with Sunflower, ca.1908. Autochrome LumièreAlvin Langdon Coburn :: Elsie Thomas (‘Toodles’) in a Kimono, ca.1908Alvin Langdon Coburn :: Elsie Thomas wearing a Kimono, ca.1908
Portrait de dame. Collection Madame (Ernesta) Stern, Paris, 1907, plaque de verre Autochrome. Collection Madame Stern / Maria Star. eBayPortrait de dame. Collection Madame (Ernesta) Stern, Paris, 1907, plaque de verre Autochrome. Collection Madame Stern / Maria Star. eBayPortrait de dame. Collection Madame (Ernesta) Stern, Paris, 1907, plaque de verre Autochrome. Collection Madame Stern / Maria Star. eBayPortrait de dame. Probably Madame (Ernesta) Stern herself, Paris, 1907. Autochrome. Collection Madame Stern / Maria Star. eBayPortrait de dame. Maybe Madame (Ernesta) Stern, Paris, 1907. Autochrome. Collection Madame Stern / Maria Star. eBayPortrait de dame. Collection Madame (Ernesta) Stern, Paris, 1907, plaque de verre Autochrome. Collection Madame Stern / Maria Star. eBayPortrait de dame. Collection Madame (Ernesta) Stern, Paris, 1907, plaque de verre Autochrome. Collection Madame Stern / Maria Star. eBay
According to the seller, Gabriele Bacchiega (eBay profile photo-stereo) all these Autochromes are somehow related to the writer and socialite Ernesta Stern (born Maria Ernesta Hierschel de Minerbi, pen-name Maria Star) (1854 – 1926) or the Salon she held in Paris at 68 rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré. Read more about her here
Charles Schenk (American, active New York 1898-1905) ~ Schenk-Draperies, New York, United States; 1902; Collotype. | Getty MuseumCharles Schenk :: Dance studies, plate 12, circa 1910. Gelatin silver print from collotype negative. | src Freeman’s auction
Charles Schenk was active in New York from 1898 to 1905. He produced a series of motion studies of women dancing with drapery as well as a collection of multi-plate prints detailing women’s hands at work. His works are in the collections of the Getty Museum, MoMA and the Rijksmuseum.
Charles Schenk (American, active New York 1898-1905) ~ Schenk-Draperies, New York, United States; 1902; Collotype. Eight images of a woman dancing in a simple dress with a rope belt. Full plate. | Getty MuseumCharles Schenk (American, active New York 1898-1905) ~ Schenk-Draperies, New York, United States; 1902; Collotype. Charles Schenk (American, active New York 1898-1905) ~ Schenk-Draperies, New York, United States; 1902; Collotype. | Getty Museum
Auguste-Marie-Louis-Nicolas Lumière and Louis-Jean Lumière ~ Tulips, 1896-1903. Trichromie. Transparency. | src Getty ImagesAuguste et Louis Lumière ~ Nature morte, stéréo à la gomme bichromatée sur verre. 1899-1900Auguste et Louis Lumière ~ Nature morte, stéréo à la gomme bichromatée sur verre. 1899-1900 (Full stereo view) Auguste-Marie-Louis-Nicolas Lumière and Louis-Jean Lumière ~ Still Life of Flowers in a Stein, 1896-1903. Trichromie. Transparency. | src Getty Images
Emma Barton / Mrs G.A. Barton (née Rayson) ~ Ave Maria, ca. 1905. Photogravure. Photographische Mitteilungen 1905 | src PhotoseedEmma Barton (née Rayson) ~ Dorothy Barton, undated. Private collection of Lesley & Cheryl Bousfield. Courtesy Luminous-lint : LL/28323Emma Barton / Mrs G.A. Barton (née Rayson) ~ (untitled on source). Photographische Mitteilungen 1905 | src The Art of PhotogravureEmma Barton / Mrs G.A. Barton (née Rayson) ~ The Song of Ages. Photograms of the year 1904. | internet archive
Frères Lumière:: Sur la plage. A daring photograph for its time of a woman in a see-through dress on a beach. France, 1907-1915. | src AlamyLumière Brothers :: Untitled early Autochrome of a woman in a silk dress standing on rocks. France, 1907-1915. | src liveauctioneers
Joseph T. Keiley (American, 1869–1914) :: A Garden of Dreams, 1899, glycerine and platinum print. | src Buffalo AKG Art MuseumJoseph T. Keiley (American, 1869–1914) :: A Garden of Dreams, 1907. Halftone. From Camera Work | src Philadelphia Museum of ArtJoseph T. Keiley (1869–1914) :: A Garden of Dreams, 1907. Halftone. From the journal Camera Work | src Philadelphia Museum of Art
Biho Takashi (active ca. 1890-1930) :: Bat in Moon, ca. 1905. Color woodblock print on paper | src Brooklyn MuseumBiho Takashi (active ca. 1890-1930) :: Bat in Moon / Bat against full Moon, woodblock print in colours and ink, ca. 1905. | Bukowskis