Tag: allegory

Féo Alington as ‘India’, 1900

Lafayette Ltd.:: Lady Feodorowna Sturt, later Baroness Alington, née Yorke as “India” in the Patriotic Picture of Great Britain, her Colonies and Dependencies. 14 February 1900 .
“Féo Alington was a gorgeous “India” loaded with the most magnificent jewels, lent by one of the Maharajas.”| src Lafayette Archive ~ V&A Museum

Spring by Johnston (1903)

Frances Benjamin Johnston :: Spring (unknown model). Photogravure. From The Vollgros Collection of Masterpieces of American Photographs, Chicago, 1903. | src photoseed

L’Amour ~ Love, 1935

William H. Mortensen :: L’Amour | Love, 1935. Manipulated photograph. An image from American Grotesque: the Life and Art of William Mortensen, published by Feral House. “Mortensen’s methods often made it hard to distinguish whether the results were photographs or not. He used traditional printmaking techniques, such as bromoiling, and developed many of his own. He would create composite images, scratch, scrape and draw on his prints, then apply a texture that made them look like etchings, thereby disguising his manipulations. Consequently, every print was unique.” quoted from source The Guardian
William H. Mortensen :: L’Amour | Love, 1935. Manipulated photograph. | src cargo collective | more [+] by this photographer

‘Caprice Vanois’, ca. 1924-1926

William H. Mortensen (1897 – 1965) :: ‘Caprice Vanois’, ca. 1924-1926. Manipulated photograph. Unique Print. | src whmortensen.com 
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Oscar Gustave Rejlander :: ‘The Two Ways of Life’, a moralistic photomontage of Rejlander’s own work, 1857 (the first photomontage in history)

In 1857 Rejlander made his best-known allegorical work: The Two Ways of Life. This was a seamlessly montaged combination print made of thirty-two images in about six weeks. First exhibited at the Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition of 1857, the work shows two youths being offered guidance by a patriarch. Each youth looks toward a section of a stage-like tableaux vivant – one youth is shown the virtuous pleasures and the other the sinful pleasures. / source: Wikipedia

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