V. Riparia sauvage, ca. 1880

Emm Isard :: Extrémité de rameau du V. Riparia sauvage, ca. 1880 | Shoot end of the riverbank grape (vitis riparia), ca. 1880. Albumen print from wet collodion negative, mounted on cardboard. | src spallart “A natural-scientific picture that – by concentrating on the object in front of a uniform background – does also meet the esthetic needs long before Blossfeldt.” quoted from source

Polynesian woman, 1921

Lucien Gauthier :: Donna polinesiana, 1921. The Metamorphosis of Nostalgia. Exoticism and Photography between 19th and 20th Centuries. Villa Malpensata. Musec, the Lugano’s Museum of Cultures. | src l’œil de la photographie