Tag: 1900s

C.L. Andrews, 1900-1910

Unknown photographer. Two men on top of Eagle Bluff in Eagle, Alaska. One man identified as C.L. Andrews stands with his head covered by a camera cloth (camera mounted on a tripod), 1900-1910. | src | src C. L. Andrews photographs, 1880s-1948 ~ University of Oregon ~ Oregon Digital Libraries

Water Lilies, ca. 1906

Baron Adolf de Meyer :: Water Lilies, ca. 1906. Platinum print, printed 1912.
«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

The Shadows on the Wall, 1906

Adolf de Meyer :: The Shadows on the Wall (Chrysanthemums), 1906. Platinum print.
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

Cain von Gloeden · visual dialogue

Wilhelm von Gloeden (1856–1931) ~ ‘Cain’, Taormina, Italien, ca. 1900. Gummidruck | src Lempertz
Wilhelm von Gloeden (1856–1931) ~ ‘Cain’, Taormina, Sicily, ca. 1900. Photogravure (1923) | src Lempertz
Wilhelm von Gloeden (1856–1931) ~ ‘Cain’, Taormina, Italy, ca. 1902. Albumen print (1913) | src Ostlicht Auktionen
Baron Wilhelm von Gloeden (1856–1931) ~ Caino, Taormina, ca. 1900 | src Germann Auktionen
Cover photo of: Gloeden, Wilhelm von, L’arte di Gloeden. Il barone fotografo, Malambrì, Taormina 1979
Hippolyte Flandrin (1805-1864) ~ Jeune homme nu assis sur le bord de la mer (aka Étude de nu), 1836. Oil on canvas | src Louvre