le ciel et la mer par Steiner

André Steiner :: Photomontage, Une nuée d'avion s'élève dans le ciel illuminé par les projecteurs, 1933.
André Steiner :: Photomontage, Une nuée d’avion s’élève dans le ciel illuminé par les projecteurs, 1933. | src Giquello et Associés
André Steiner (Andor Steiner) :: Vue aérienne, Maroc, 1933, tirage argentique.
André Steiner (Andor Steiner) :: Vue aérienne, Maroc, 1933, tirage argentique. | src Giquello et Associés

St. Moritzersee von Steiner

Albert Steiner (1877-1965) :: November morning at Lake St. Moritz. Gelatin silver print. | src Dobiaschofsky Auktionen
Albert Steiner (1877-1965) :: Novembermorgen am St. Moritzersee. Silbergelatineabzug. | src Dobiaschofsky Auktionen
Albert Steiner (1877-1965) :: Novembermorgen am St. Moritzersee. Silbergelatineabzug. | src Dobiaschofsky Auktionen
Albert Steiner (1877-1965) :: November morning at Lake St. Moritz. Gelatin silver print. | src Dobiaschofsky Auktionen

Remembering You · Paul Cupido

Paul Cupido :: Hommage Celeste, 2022. From : Remembering You / Se souvenir de toi. Amsterdam Bildhalle
src l'œil de la photographie
Paul Cupido :: Hommage Celeste, 2022. From : Remembering You / Se souvenir de toi. Amsterdam Bildhalle
src l’œil de la photographie
Paul Cupido :: Pendulum, 2022. From : Remembering You / Se souvenir de toi. Amsterdam Bildhalle
Paul Cupido :: Pendulum, 2022. From : Remembering You / Se souvenir de toi. Amsterdam Bildhalle
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View of India. Udaipur, 1923

Jules Gervais Courtellemont :: View of the Palace of Maharaja’s pond from the Island of the Sultans in Udaipur, India, 1923. | src National Geographic
Jules Gervais Courtellemont :: View of the Palace of Maharaja’s pond from the Island of the Sultans in Udaipur, India, 1923. | src National Geographic
Jules Gervais Courtellemont :: View of the Palace of Maharaja’s pond from the Island of the Sultans in Udaipur, India, 1923. | src National Geographic

Ama divers by Iwase 1948-1950

Yoshiyuki Iwase :: Untitled (Ama diver), 1948. Vintage GSP
Yoshiyuki Iwase :: Ohne Titel, 1950. Vintage GSP. Verso mit Photographenstempel und mit Bleistift bez. | src Lempertz
Yoshiyuki Iwase :: Ohne Titel, 1950. Vintage GSP. Verso mit Photographenstempel und mit Bleistift bez. | src Lempertz
Yoshiyuki Iwase :: Ohne Titel (Taucherin), 1948. Vintage, Gelatinesilberabzug. Verso mit zwei japanischen Photographenstempeln
Yoshiyuki Iwase :: Untitled (Ama diver), 1948. Vintage GSP with photographer's stamp. | src Lempertz
Yoshiyuki Iwase :: Ohne Titel (Taucherin), 1948. Vintage, Gelatinesilberabzug. Verso mit zwei japanischen Photographenstempeln
Yoshiyuki Iwase :: Untitled (Ama diver), 1948. Vintage GSP with photographer’s stamp. | src Lempertz

Chateau Chillon sur le lac Leman

Bisson Frères (*) :: Chateau Chillon sur le lac Leman, Suisse, 19ème siècle. | src Proantic
Bisson Frères (*) :: Chateau Chillon sur le lac Leman, Suisse, 19ème siècle. | src Proantic
Bisson Frères (*) :: Chateau Chillon sur le lac Leman, Suisse, 19ème siècle. | src Proantic

(*) Photo des Frères Bisson Louis-Auguste Bisson (French, 1814–1876) et Artist: Auguste-Rosalie Bisson (French, 1826–1900)

Bisson Frères (*) :: Chateau Chillon sur le lac Leman, Suisse, 19ème siècle (detail). | src Proantic
Bisson Frères (*) :: Chateau Chillon sur le lac Leman, Suisse, 19ème siècle (detail). | src Proantic

A turreted iceberg, 1913

Frank Hurley (1885–1962) :: A turreted berg lit by the midsummer midnight sun, 1913. Carbon print w/ added toning chemicals. First Australasian Antarctic Expedition. One of the most striking photographs from this group, shot during the first of the three major voyages of exploration to Antarctica. | src the National Gallery of Victoria

Gazing at the grey curtains of fog from the deck of our ship, so tiny in the surrounding vastness, we felt like Argonauts whose quest had led to the World’s brim. Slowly we crept on, filled with wonder and expectancy … Through a rift we made out the glimmering sheen of a colossal berg.

– Frank Hurley, Argonauts of the South (1925)

Frank Hurley (1885–1962) :: A radiant turret lit by the midsummer midnight sun, 1913. | State Library of New South Wales

Thousands of mighty bergs were grounded on a vast shoal and our way lay through its midst. No grander sight have I ever witnessed among the wonders of Antarctica. We threaded a way down lanes of vivid blue with shimmering walls of mammoth bergs rising like castles of jade on either side. Countless blue canals branched off and led through what appeared to be avenues of marble skyscrapers – dazzling white in the full sunshine. Waves had weathered out impressive portals and gigantic caverns in their gleaming sides, azure at the entrance and gradually fading into rich cobalt in their remote depths. Festoons of icicles sparkling like crystal pendants, draped ledges and arches.

– Frank Hurley, Argonauts of the South (1925)

Frank Hurley (1885–1962) :: A radiant turret lit by the midsummer midnight sun, 1913. From [Antarctic views] | Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW, also in old catalogue

Among Hurley’s photographs taken on the Aurora in 1913 is A turreted berg, a striking study of a lofty iceberg. The photograph shows an iceberg that has been transformed by the elements into a floating pyramid of ice. In his writings, Hurley repeatedly refers to the intensity and purity of colour of the icebergs. In A turreted berg he has not employed the newly invented colour processes, but has made selective use of toning chemicals to alter the colour of the carbon photograph.15 In this case the normally neutral tonal range of this kind of photograph has been shifted to an intense shade of blue, this colour reflecting more naturalistically the actual tones of the subject.

– Susan van Wyk: A turreted berg : an Antarctic photograph by Frank Hurley [quoted from the National Gallery of Victoria]

A turreted berg [detail of photograph on top of this post] from the National Gallery of Victoria

It is interesting to note the sky in Hurley’s photograph. The clouds fan out almost symmetrically from behind the iceberg, whose remarkable silhouette is softly backlit. However, what seems to be a most fortuitous conjunction of natural phenomena is, in fact, a manipulated effect. Close examination of the photograph reveals an artificially crisp contour line around the iceberg – evidence that suggests Hurley manipulated the image in his darkroom, using the technique of masking, and combining negatives, to create a composite photograph. Hurley was well known for such practices in his work. Subsequently, the practice of combining negatives to create a photograph that ‘more accurately’ represented a scene entered the debate surrounding the veracity of photography as a documentary medium. But in 1913 this question of veracity does not appear to have been an issue, at least for Douglas Mawson, for whom Hurley was ‘indisputably a superb photographer, and a very competent technician in the way he superimposed different photographs for effect’.

– Susan van Wyk: A turreted berg : an Antarctic photograph by Frank Hurley [quoted from the National Gallery of Victoria]

People amongst rock pools

French coastal scene depicting a man and three women amongst rock pools near the sea, 1895. (Photo by Universal History Archive / Universal Images Group) | src Getty Images
French coastal scene depicting a man and three women amongst rock pools near the sea, 1895. (Photo by Universal History Archive / Universal Images Group) | src Getty Images
French coastal scene depicting two women amongst rock pools near the sea, 1895. (Photo by Universal History Archive / Universal Images Group) | src Getty Images
French coastal scene depicting two women [and a dog] amongst rock pools near the sea, 1895. (Photo by Universal History Archive / Universal Images Group) | src Getty Images

Femme sur une plage (1907)

Ernest-Louis Lessieux :: Femme en costume de bain accroupie au bord de l'eau (titre factice), plaque de verre Autochrome, 1907. Conseil des musées. Le musée de l'île d'Oléron
Ernest-Louis Lessieux :: Femme en costume de bain accroupie au bord de l’eau (titre factice), plaque de verre Autochrome, 1907. Conseil des musées. Le musée de l’île d’Oléron
Ernest-Louis Lessieux :: Femme en costume de bain sur une plage de l'île d'Oléron (titre factice), plaque de verre Autochrome, 1907. Conseil des musées. Le musée de l'île d'Oléron
Ernest-Louis Lessieux :: Femme en costume de bain sur une plage de l’île d’Oléron (titre factice), plaque de verre Autochrome, 1907. Conseil des musées. Le musée de l’île d’Oléron

Hjördis, 1921-09-20

Hjördis på huvudet bakåt / Hjördis dives back, Lovö, Sverige, 1921-09-20. | src Berit Wallenberg's collection at Swedish Heritage Board
Hjördis på huvudet bakåt / Hjördis dives back, Lovö, Sverige, 1921-09-20. | src Berit Wallenberg Samling Swedish Heritage Board
Hjördis slår över / Hjördis turns over, Lovö, Sverige, 1921-09-20. | src Berit Wallenberg's collection at Swedish Heritage Board
Hjördis slår över / Hjördis turns over, Lovö, Sverige, 1921-09-20. | src Berit Wallenberg’s collection Swedish Heritage Board
Hjördis fotograferad framifrån / Hjördis, front view, 1921-09-20
Hjördis med bortvänt huvud / Hjördis with head turned away, 1921-09-20