Karsavina, ca. 1908. Autochromes
Tag: baron adolf de meyer
Flower studies by De Meyer
These studies, titled Still-life (Nature morte; Stillleben), are halftones printed from the original Autochrome dating from 1908; both were published in “Colour Photography and other Recent Developments of the Art of the Camera” a British companion along with “Art in Photography”, to Camera Work, the important American photo secessionist magazine published by Alfred Stieglitz. | src eBay & eBay
Roses in a vase, ca. 1911
Still-lifes by de Meyer 1908
These studies, titled Still-life (Nature morte; Stillleben), are halftones printed from the original Autochrome dating from 1908; both were published in “Colour Photography and other Recent Developments of the Art of the Camera” a British companion along with “Art in Photography”, to Camera Work, the important American photo secessionist magazine published by Alfred Stieglitz. | src eBay & eBay
«Where My Love Lies Dreaming»
Water Lilies, ca. 1906
«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
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
La Marchesa Casati , ca. 1913
Marchesa Luisa Casati, 1912
Dance study by de Meyer
It has been suggested that this photograph, the only [known] nude by de Meyer, has some connection to the Ballets Russes, but the nature of that link remains mysterious. The image vibrates with an uneasy erotic tension, a product of the figure’s exposed torso, startled body language, and disguised identity. (quoted from The Met)
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