Still-lifes by Lumiere Brothers

Auguste-Marie-Louis-Nicolas Lumière and Louis-Jean Lumière ~ Tulips, 1896-1903. Trichromie. Transparency. | src Getty Images
Auguste et Louis Lumière ~ Nature morte, stéréo à la gomme bichromatée sur verre. 1899-1900
Auguste et Louis Lumière ~ Nature morte, stéréo à la gomme bichromatée sur verre. 1899-1900 (Full stereo view)
Auguste-Marie-Louis-Nicolas Lumière and Louis-Jean Lumière ~ Still Life of Flowers in a Stein, 1896-1903. Trichromie. Transparency. | src Getty Images

Gommans’ Flowers in Dutch Light

Stella Gommans :: All Delicate and Dreamy. From : "Flowers in Dutch Light" at Elliott Gallery
Stella Gommans :: All Delicate and Dreamy. From : “Flowers in Dutch Light” at Elliott Gallery
Stella Gommans :: In My Mind. Archival Pigment Print on Hahnemuhle Fine Art Paper. From : "A Declaration of Love. Flowers in Dutch Light"
Stella Gommans :: In My Mind. Archival Pigment Print on Hahnemuhle Fine Art Paper. From: “A Declaration of Love. Flowers in Dutch Light
Stella Gommans :: Head up Gorgeous. From : “Flowers in Dutch Light” at Elliott Gallery
Stella Gommans :: Head up Gorgeous. From : “Flowers in Dutch Light” at Elliott Gallery

All images: Archival Pigment Prints on Hahnemuhle Fine Art Paper

A Declaration of Love

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Stella Gommans :: Field of Dreams. From : “A Declation of Love. Flowers in Dutch Light” | src Gommans
Stella Gommans :: Field of Dreams. From : “A Declation of Love. Flowers in Dutch Light” | src Gommans

This series celebrates flowers – capturing their different phases and the variety of shapes and colours – each telling their own story. In beautiful detail it depicts how the light emphasises the elegance of the stem, or how it catches the leaf, or how it allows us to catch a glimpse of the brittle petals and the burst of colours when in full bloom. The viewer is invited to look closer and sometimes even take a step back, because in that instant – hidden aspects emerge – like a choreography, a fabulous dance.

‘A Declaration of Love, flowers in Dutch light’ is a series that symbolises life.

Flowers naturally bloom in all their strength, vulnerability and beauty – with elegance and grace – poetically captured in that single moment in time, never to be repeated again.

It is a serenade to life and love! [quoted from Stella Gommans website]

Stella Gommans :: Magic in Process. From : “Flowers in Dutch Light”
Stella Gommans :: Magic in Process. From : “Flowers in Dutch Light” at Elliott Gallery
Stella Gommans :: A Fresh Start. From : “Flowers in Dutch Light” at Elliott Gallery
Stella Gommans :: You Are Awesome. From : “Flowers in Dutch Light” at Elliott Gallery
Stella Gommans :: Take Your Time. From : “Flowers in Dutch Light” at Elliott Gallery
Stella Gommans :: Kind of Classy. From : “Flowers in Dutch Light” at Elliott Gallery
Stella Gommans :: Head up Gorgeous. From : “Flowers in Dutch Light” at Elliott Gallery

All images: Archival Pigment Prints on Hahnemuhle Fine Art Paper

Tulips by Anton Weiss

Tulp en andere bloemen Anton Weiss Rijksmuseum RP-P-OB-19.551
Tulp en andere bloemen. Anton Weiss. From: Bloem en Fruit Studien. | src Rijksmuseum RP-P-OB-19.551
Tulp en andere bloemen Anton Weiss Rijksmuseum RP-P-OB-19.551
Anton Weiss :: Tulip and other flowers. From: Flower and Fruit Studies. [Detail] | src Rijksmuseum RP-P-OB-19.551
Twee tulpen, Anton Weiss, after a design by Jan van Huysum, 1820 – 1833. From: Bloem en Fruit Studien. | src Rijksmuseum

Tulips and hyacinths, 1928

Jan Zdzisław Włodek :: Tulips and hyacinths. Greenhouse in Pędzichów, 1928. Autochrome of blooming tulips and hyacinths in the greenhouse of the Włodków villa in Kraków. | src Archiwum Rodziny Włodków z Dąbrowicy
Jan Zdzisław Włodek :: Tulips and hyacinths. Greenhouse in Pędzichów, 1928. Autochrome of blooming tulips and hyacinths in the greenhouse of the Włodków villa in Kraków. | src Archiwum Rodziny Włodków z Dąbrowicy
Jan Zdzisław Włodek :: Tulipany i hiacynty. Cieplarnia na Pędzichowie, 1928. Autochrome of blooming tulips and hyacinths in the greenhouse of the Włodków villa in Kraków. | src Archiwum Rodziny Włodków z Dąbrowicy
Jan Zdzisław Włodek :: Tulips and hyacinths. Greenhouse in Pędzichów, 1928. Autochrome of blooming tulips and hyacinths in the greenhouse of the Włodków villa in Kraków. | src Archiwum Rodziny Włodków z Dąbrowicy
Detail from an Autochrome of blooming tulips and hyacinths (1928) by Jan Zdzisław Włodek
Jan Zdzisław Włodek :: Tulips and hyacinths. Greenhouse in Pędzichów, 1928. Autochrome of blooming tulips and hyacinths in the greenhouse of the Włodków villa in Kraków. | src Archiwum Rodziny Włodków z Dąbrowicy
Jan Zdzisław Włodek :: Tulips and hyacinths. Greenhouse in Pędzichów, 1928. Autochrome of blooming tulips and hyacinths in the greenhouse of the Włodków villa in Kraków. | src Archiwum Rodziny Włodków z Dąbrowicy

Tulips by Włodek, 1928

Jan Zdzisław Włodek :: Tulipany. Cieplarnia na Pędzichowie. Autochrome of blooming tulips in the greenhouse of the Włodków villa at Pędzichów, 1928. | Fundacja im. Zofii i Jana Włodków
Jan Zdzisław Włodek :: Tulipany. Cieplarnia na Pędzichowie. Autochrome of blooming tulips in the greenhouse of the Włodków villa at Pędzichów, 1928. | Fundacja im. Zofii i Jana Włodków
Jan Zdzisław Włodek :: Tulipany. Cieplarnia na Pędzichowie. Autochrome of blooming tulips in the greenhouse of the Włodków villa at Pędzichów, 1928. | Fundacja im. Zofii i Jana Włodków
Jan Zdzisław Włodek :: Tulipany. Cieplarnia na Pędzichowie. Autochrome of blooming tulips in the greenhouse of the Włodków villa at Pędzichów, 1928. | Fundacja im. Zofii i Jana Włodków
Detail from an Autochrome of blooming tulips in the greenhouse of the Włodków villa at Pędzichów, 1928.
Jan Zdzisław Włodek :: Tulipany. Cieplarnia na Pędzichowie. Autochrome of blooming tulips in the greenhouse of the Włodków villa at Pędzichów, 1928. | Fundacja im. Zofii i Jana Włodków
Jan Zdzisław Włodek :: Tulipany. Cieplarnia na Pędzichowie. Autochrome of blooming tulips in the greenhouse of the Włodków villa at Pędzichów, 1928. [full size] | Fundacja im. Zofii i Jana Włodków

Tulips, ca. 1911 (Clara Sipprell)

Clara Sipprell (1885-1975) :: Tulips, ca. 1911. Glass transparency. Additive color screen plate(*). | src Amon Carter Museum
Clara E. Sipprell :: Tulips, ca. 1911. Glass transparency. Additive color screen plate(*). | src Amon Carter Museum of American Art

(*) Additive Color Screen Plate or Screen Plate were known commonly by the product name: Autochrome, Filmcolor, Lumicolor, Alticolor. Used mainly between 1907 and 1935. Initially it has a glass support; later products on film supports. This process was the first fully practical single-plate color process. The Autochrome plate or Screen plate could record both saturated and subtle colors with fidelity, and since the screen and the image were combined, there were no registration problems. Nonetheless, it had its drawbacks: the exposure times were long, and the processed plates were very dense, transmitting only less than the 10% of the light reaching them.

The result is a soft, subdued, dreamy colored image. And grainy. Although the starch grain filters were microscopically small their random distribution meant that inevitably there would be clumping of grains of the same color.