Tag: palladium print

Watkins · Flower Studies

Margaret Watkins (Canadian, 1884-1969) ~ Flower Studies (Poppies), ca. 1920
Margaret Watkins ~ Flower Studies, ca. 1920s. © The Estate of Margaret Watkins. Courtesy Robert Mann Gallery. | src l’œil de la photographie

Que cae ~ Falling, 1980

Manuel Álvarez Bravo ~ Que cae (‘That Falls’), 1980. Palladium print, nº 8 from the portfolio “Diez Desnudos” (1981) | src AIC ~ Chicago Art Institute
Manuel Álvarez Bravo (1902-2002) ~ Que cae, 1980 (Falling, also ‘That Falls’) | src Dallas Museum of Art on Artsy

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

Betty Katz by Edward Weston

Edward H. Weston (1886 – 1958) ~ Betty Katz (‘nude’), Los Angeles, 1920. Palladium print | src The J. Paul Getty Museum
Edward H. Weston (1886 – 1958) ~ Betty Katz [Betty Brandner], 1920 | src The J. Paul Getty Museum

In 1920 Edward Weston began a series of pictures of Betty Katz (later Brandner, 1865-1982), who was introduced to Weston by his colleague Margrethe Mather (1886-1952). Weston and Brandner engaged in a brief affair in October 1920, when he made this and several other images of her in her attic and out on a balcony. With its soft focus, these particular portraits are Pictorialist in style compared to the more experimental images Weston made of Katz (Brandner) that are Modernist in their self-conscious handling of space and form.

Text adapted from Brett Abbott. Edward Weston, In Focus: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2005), 20. (quoted from Getty Museum)