Tag: american pictorialism

Wearing a Fortuny Dress, ca. 1920

Arnold Genthe :: [Woman Wearing a Fortuny Dress], about 1920. Gelatin silver print. The J. Paul Getty Museum | src Flickr

The Dying Cedar, ca. 1907

Anne Wardrope Brigman :: The Dying Cedar, 1906. Platinum print. | src Smithsonian American Art Museum pictorialism anne brigman anne w. brigman
Anne Wardrope Brigman :: The Dying Cedar, 1906. Platinum print. | src Smithsonian American Art Museum

Tug and Log Boom, ca. 1925

William E. Dassonville :: San Francisco Tug and Log Boom, ca. 1925, vintage silver print. | src California Landscape Exhibition at Lee Gallery 

Trees, San Francisco, ca. 1925

William E. Dassonville :: Trees, San Francisco, ca. 1925, vintage silver print on “Dassonville Charcoal Black” paper. | src California Landscape Exhibition at Lee Gallery

The Readers by C.H. White

Clarence H. White :: The Readers (Letitia Felix and Ada Follett), Newark, Ohio, 1897. Platinum print. (Detail)
Clarence Hudson White :: The Readers (Letitia Felix and Ada Follett), Newark, Ohio, 1897. Platinum print. (Detail)
Clarence H. White :: The Readers (Letitia Felix and Ada Follett), Newark, Ohio, 1897. Platinum print. (Detail) | src Library of Congress
Clarence Hudson White :: The Readers (Letitia Felix and Ada Follett), Newark, Ohio, 1897. Platinum print. | src Library of Congress
Clarence Hudson White :: The Readers (Letitia Felix and Ada Follett), Newark, Ohio, 1897. Platinum print. | src Library of Congress

The Ring Toss, 1899

Clarence Hudson White :: The Ring Toss, Newark, Ohio, 1899. Photograph shows three little girls playing ring toss game. [digital file from color film copy transparency] | src Library of Congress
Clarence Hudson White :: The Ring Toss, Newark, Ohio, 1899. Photograph shows three girls playing ring toss game. [digital file from original photograph] | src Library of Congress
Clarence Hudson White :: The Ring Toss, Newark, Ohio, 1899. Photograph shows three girls playing ring toss game. [digital file from original photograph – full size original scan] | src Library of Congress

Morning, ca. 1905

Clarence Hudson White :: Morning, ca. 1905. Photogravure. | src NGA
Clarence Hudson White :: Morning, ca. 1905. Photogravure. | src National Gallery of Art

Inscription on verso, by unknown hand in graphite: Woman with Chrystal Globe (Study of Mrs. White) about 1905.

Clarence Hudson White :: Morning, 1905. Gum bichromate print. | src Princeton University Art Museum
Clarence Hudson White :: Morning, 1905. Gum bichromate print. | src Princeton University Art Museum

Ghost Rock · Laura Gilpin · 1919

Laura Gilpin (1891-1979) ~ The Ghost Rock, 1919. Platinum print. | src Amon Carter Museum of American Art
Laura Gilpin (1891-1979) ~ The Ghost Rock. Garden of the Gods; Apr. 1919. Gelatin silver print. | src Amon Carter Museum of Art
Laura Gilpin ~ The Ghost Rock; Garden of the Gods; April 1919. Gelatin silver print, slightly toned. | src Amon Carter Museum

Admiring a print, ca. 1910

Eva Watson-Schütze :: Woman Admiring a Print, ca. 1910. Bromoil print. | src V&A museum
Eva Watson-Schütze :: Woman Admiring a Print, ca. 1910. Bromoil print. | src V&A museum

The image shows a woman in full length, wearing a long dress and standing at a table in profile against a blank pale wall, holding the edges of a print which is resting on the table. Bright light from a window in the top left of the photograph lights the front of the woman and the tabletop.

This is an example of the bromoil process invented around 1907, in which a bleached image is re-developed with pigment applied with brushes. ‘Pictorialist’ photographers favoured its broad tonal effects and diffuse detail. The print being ‘admired’ in the image is likely to have been a finely crafted photograph much like this one. [Gallery 100, ‘History of photography’, 2012-2013]

quoted from V&A Museum