femme et chat · deux intimes

Deux intimes (fig. 4). Young woman playing with her cat. France, ca. 1900. Half of a stereographic card. RV-443542 © Roger Viollet | src getty images

Deux intimes (fig. 6). Young woman playing with her cat. France, ca. 1900. Half of a stereographic card. RV-443540 © Roger Viollet | src getty images

Portraits mondains (94). Young woman playing with her cat owing a mirror. France, ca. 1900. Half of a stereographic card. RV-443543 © Roger Viollet | src getty images

Portraits mondains (43). Young woman stroking her cat in a sofa. France, ca. 1900. Half of a stereographic card. RV-443536 © Roger Viollet | src getty images

Blossoming cactus 1930s

**Hans Grendahl (1877-1962) ~** Cactus flowers. Close-up, June, 1937. Autochrome. Stereo. | src Preus museum

**Hans Grendahl (1877-1962) ~** Kaktusblomster. Nærbilde, June, 1937. Autochrome. Stereo. | src Preus museum

**Hans Grendahl (1877-1962) ~** Blossoming cactus, July, 1934. Autochrome. Stereo photograph. | src Preus museum

**Hans Grendahl (1877-1962) ~** Blomstrende kaktus, July, 1934. Autochrome. Stereo photograph. | src Preus museum

**Hans Grendahl (1877-1962) ~** Blossoming cactus, July, 1937. Autochrome. Stereo photograph. | src Preus museum

**Hans Grendahl (1877-1962) ~** Blomstrende kaktus, July, 1937. Autochrome. Stereo photograph. | src Preus museum

About Hans Grendahl (1877 – 1962)

Born in Rennebu. Son of farmer Ole Knudsen Grendahl and Ane Hansdatter, born Aas. He graduated in architecture with architect Solberg, Trondheim, in 1902, after which he went to Germany and studied architecture at the university in Karlsruhe. After completing his education, Grendahl was employed, among others in the company Jacob Digre in Ålesund, later he became an assistant teacher in building subjects, construction and freehand drawing at Trondhjem’s technical training institute. In 1916 he was employed as a teacher at NTH. In the 1920s and 30s took a number of photographs in color (Autochromes), i.a. interiors and exteriors of churches in Trøndelag, Gudbrandsdalen, Østerdalen, Møre and Romsdal and Telemark, as well as pictures from the Trøndelag exhibition in 1930 and the Drammen exhibition in the same year. The oldest color photo taken in his collection is from 1922. Grendahl left a unique archive of stereo images, about half of which are in colour, to his daughter Adelheide (Ada) Grue, in Stjørdal. The picture collection was bought by the Preus Fotomuseum in 1989 and digitalized in December 2021. It consists of 1017 photographs on glass plates in the format 90×140 mm. With a few exceptions, the images are stereo images.

quoted from Preus Fotomuseum

**Hans Grendahl (1877-1957) ~** White cactus, July, 1935. Autochrome. Stereo photograph. | src Preus museum

**Hans Grendahl (1877-1957) ~** Hvit kaktus, July, 1935. Autochrome. Stereo photograph. | src Preus museum

Stereo views of landscapes

Etienne Descargues :: [Femme cueillant des fleurs dans une prairie], 1892-1914. Vue stéréoscopique. | BnF ~ Gallica — **Etienne Descargues ::** [Femme cueillant des fleurs dans une prairie], 1892-1914. Vue stéréoscopique. | BnF ~ Gallica

Etienne Descargues :: [Femme cueillant des fleurs dans une prairie], 1892-1914. Vue stéréoscopique. (half view) | BnF ~ Gallica — **Etienne Descargues ::** [Femme cueillant des fleurs dans une prairie], 1892-1914. Vue stéréoscopique. | BnF ~ Gallica

**Etienne Descargues ::** [Plan d’eau la nuit], 1892-1914. Vue stéréoscopique. | BnF ~ Gallica

Etienne Descargues :: [Arbres au printemps, prairie, maisons rurales], 1890-1914. Vue stéréoscopique. | BnF ~ Gallica — **Etienne Descargues ::** [Arbres au printemps, prairie, maisons rurales], 1892-1914. Vue stéréoscopique. | BnF ~ Gallica

Colored Daguerreotype (1850s)

Finnish stereo view, colorized daguerreotype of a woman pumping milk into a bowl. 1850s | src Helsinki Photos — Finnish framed stereo image, daguerreotype. The girl is pouring milk into a bowl. 1850s | src Helsinki Photos

Finnish framed stereo image, daguerreotype. The girl is pouring milk into a bowl. 1850s | src Helsinki Photos — Finnish stereo view, colorized daguerreotype of a woman pumping milk into a bowl. 1850s | src Helsinki Photos

La photographie érotique

Anonyme, Académie, vers 1845, daguerréotype. From: Abigail Solomon-Godeau: «Reconsidérer la photographie érotique» | src l'œil de la photographie — Anonyme, Académie, vers 1845, daguerréotype. From: Abigail Solomon-Godeau: «Reconsidérer la photographie érotique» | src l’œil de la photographie

Anonyme, Nu, vers 1848, daguerréotype (stereo). From: Abigail Solomon-Godeau: «Reconsidérer la photographie érotique» | src l'œil de la photograp — Anonyme, Nu, vers 1848, daguerréotype (stereo). From: Abigail Solomon-Godeau: «Reconsidérer la photographie érotique» | src l’œil de la photographie

Two Women Embracing. Unknown French maker; about 1848; Daguerreotype, hand-colored. From: Abigail Solomon-Godeau: «Reconsidérer la photographie érotique» | src l'œil de la photographie — Two Women Embracing. Unknown French maker; about 1848; Daguerreotype, hand-colored. From: Abigail Solomon-Godeau: «Reconsidérer la photographie érotique» | src l’œil de la photographie

The title is intriguing: «Reconsidérer la photographie érotique». (“Reconsidering erotic photography”).
The text itself is brilliant and of great intelligence.

In this 1987 essay, historian Abigail Solomon-Godeau traces avenues for exploring a history of erotic and pornographic photographic production, a history hitherto repressed and absent from narratives. Thus opening the door to a feminist and revised history of the photographic medium, she shows how much this imagery has been abundant and present almost from the origins of photography. In “Reconsidering erotic photography”, Abigail Solomon-Godeau analyzes the ways in which naked bodies are presented in several photographic images from the 1840s-1850s, whether academic nudes or images intended for other types of visual consumption, and questions the specificity of photographic representation as opposed to other mediums. Supporting feminist theories, she raises the question of how these images are viewed, and the ambiguity of their designation, between eroticism and pornography. At the heart of this pioneering essay in the history of photography, she defends the need to write the history of these often set aside productions.

Reconsidérer la photographie érotique.
Notes pour un projet de sauvetage historique
Abigail Solomon-Godeau
Éléonore Challine (éd. et trad.),
Éditions de la Sorbonne, 2022
quoted from l’œil de la photographie

Le lac de Lourdes, vers 1920

Swing bridge of Carrick, 1903

**William Herman Rau ::** On the famous swing bridge of Carrick-a-rede, County Antrim, Ireland, 1903. | src Library of Congress

Catania: eruption of the Etna

**Jean Andrieu ::** Catania: der Ausbruch des Etna (1865). Albuminpapier Stereoformat. | src Albertina online Collection

Woman standing on cliff, 1902

Nearly a mile straight down and only a step–from Glacier Point, Yosemite valley, ca. 1902 [detail]

Nearly a mile straight down and only a step–from Glacier Point (N.W.) across valley to Yosemite Falls, Yosemite, Cal.,ca. 1902. Underwood & Underwood. Half stereo card.

Original title: Nearly a mile straight down and only a step–from Glacier Point (N.W.) across valley to Yosemite Falls, Yosemite, Cal. [Description: Woman standing on cliff overlooking deep valley.]. Underwood & Underwood, publishers, New York, ca. 1902. Digital file from original photo : photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. [scanned half stereo] | src Library of Congress

**Underwood & Underwood ::** Woman standing on cliff overlooking deep valley, 1900-1910

B&W film copy negative from original stereo card | src Library of Congress

View of woman standing on an overhanging rock at Glacier Point with Yosemite Falls seen in the distance. | src ALMA repository

Kyaitteyo Pagoda, ca. 1900

**Underwood & Underwood ~** Kyaitteyo Pagoda, miraculously balanced by a hair of Buddha, on Kelasa hills, near Kyaikto in Mon State, Burma (Myanmar), ca. 1900

Stereoscopic pair of photographs [50 (9059)] from a collection of 36 stereoscopic views of Burma, one of a series of “stereoscopic tours” of foreign countries published as part of the Underwood Travel Library. This is a general view of the “Golden Rock” pagoda, a stupa built on top of a massive boulder resting precariously on a hillside 20 km (12 miles) away from Kyaikto. | src British Library; also on wikimedia commons

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