Tag: iris

Nude with flowers by Arbeit

Mark Arbeit ~ Lily Back, 1997. Gelatin silver print on Hahnemühle Baryta paper | src artsy
Mark Arbeit ~ Iris, 1986. Gelatin silver print on Hahnemühle Baryta paper | src artsy

Laura Gilpin · Iris · 1926

Laura Gilpin (1891-1979) ~ White Iris [Colorado Springs, Colorado]; May 7, 1926. Hand-coated platinum print. | src Amon Carter Museum P1979.141.27
Laura Gilpin (1891-1979) ~ White Iris [Colorado Springs, Colorado]; May 7, 1926. Gelatin silver print. | src Amon Carter Museum P1979.141.23
Laura Gilpin (1891-1979) ~ [Iris]; 1920’s-1960’s. Platinum print. | src Amon Carter Museum of American Art (P1979.141.47)
Laura Gilpin (1891-1979) ~ White Iris [Colorado Springs, Colorado]; May 7, 1926. Handcoated platinum print. | src Amon Carter Museum of American Art P1979.141.24

Irises, Arthemius, 1927-1930

Leendert Blok (1895-1986) :: Iris, Arthemius, ca. 1927. Autochrome. | src Box Galerie
Leendert Blok (1895-1986) :: Iris, Arthemius, ca. 1927. Autochrome. | src Box Galerie
Leendert Blok :: Flowers, Flower bulbs. Irises, ca. 1930. Example of early color photography using the Autochrome process. | src Nationaal Archief ~ Collectie Spaarnestad
Leendert Blok :: Flowers, Flower bulbs. Irises, ca. 1930. Example of early color photography using the Autochrome process. | src Nationaal Archief ~ Collectie Spaarnestad

Iris by Leendert Blok (1920s)

Lendeert Blok (1895-1986) :: Iris, Ismene / Uma, 1920-1930. Autochrome. | src Moors Magazine and ODLP
Lendeert Blok (1895-1986) :: Iris, Ismene / Uma, 1920-1930. Autochrome. | src Moors Magazine and ODLP | Detail
Lendeert Blok (1895-1986) :: Iris, Ismene / Uma, 1920-1930. Autochrome. | src Moors Magazine and ODLP (detail)

Leendert Blok experimented with color process and with close-up shots that filled the screen. A pioneer of color photography, Blok worked closely in the 1920s with flower producers in The Netherlands, who were developing many new floral varieties and made high-quality color prints for their product catalogs.
Silent Beauties. Fotografien aus den 1920er-Jahren, Hatje Cantz, 2015.
Les extravagantes, portraits of flowers shot in autochrome by Lendeert Blok. Xavier Barral, 2015.

The White Iris, 1921

Edward Weston :: The White Iris [Tina Modotti, nude bust portrait leaning toward iris], 1921. Platinum or palladium print. | src Johan Hagemeyer Collection at CCP

Vase aux Iris et Orchidées

irises or orchids
Laure Albin-Guillot (1879-1962) :: Vase aux Iris | Vase with Iris, 1938 | src tout ceci est magnifique
Laure Albin-Guillot (1879-1962) :: Vase aux orchidées (*), 1938. Épreuve au charbon, tirage Fresson, signée et datée au recto, inscription manuscrite « New York expo Art décoratif français » au verso | src Piasa auction Dec. 2016 (lot 11)

(*) Note: not orchids but irises; vase with irises. Unless they were a variety of orchids that look very much like irises. If anybody happen to have the knowledge to disambiguate, please drop a line below. Thank you!

Laure Albin-Guillot :: Orchidées 1927. Carbon Fresson print, on metalised golden paper. | src Luminous Lint LL/50901
Laure Albin-Guillot :: Orchidées, 1927. Carbon Fresson print, on metalised golden paper. Auctioned at Sotheby’s May 2013 PF 1310 Lot 79. | src Luminous Lint : LL/50901

“Le sujet le plus banal, quelques fleurs dans un vase par exemple, devient nouveau par la façon dont les lumières y sont groupées et par l’extrème variété des valeurs. (…) Pour donner plus de richesse à ses compositions, l’auteur [Laure Albin Guillot] les a tirées sur fond or selon un procédé dont elle a le brevet.”
Jean Gallotti, ‘La photographie est-elle un art? Laure Albin-Guyot [sic!]’, dans L’art vivant, No. 99, 1er février 1929, p. 138. [Quoted from Sotheby’s]