Tag: waterscape, Wasserlandschaft, paisatge aquàtic, paesaggio acquatico, paisaje acuático, paysage aquatique

Play, 1950 by H.C. Newton

Henry Christopher Newton (1906-1969) :: “Play”, 1950. Halftone print. From Photograms of the Year 1950. | src eBay
Henry Christopher Newton (1906-1969) :: “Play”, 1950. Halftone print. From Photograms of the Year 1950. (full page) | src eBay

‘Cloudland’, Southport, 1875-76

‘Cloudland’, Southport. 1875–76. Albumen prints, trimmed to a circular format, mounted on two album leaves, each mount titled and dated ‘Nov. 29. 1875 – Southport – Jan. 27. 1876’ in ink with a quotation:
‘Things that the angels work out for us daily & yet vary eternally’ [John Ruskin]
src The Photographic Process

The Niagara Falls, ca. 1855

Platt D. Babbitt :: [Niagara Falls], ca. 1855. Daguerreotype in leather case. | src MFAH · Museum of Fine Arts Houston
Platt D. Babbitt (American, active 1840s–70s) :: The Niagara Falls, ca. 1850. Daguerreotype | src The Met
Platt D. Babbitt (American, active 1840s–70s) :: The Niagara Falls, ca. 1850. Daguerreotype in leather case | src The Met
Platt D. Babbitt (American, 1823 – 1879) :: [Scene at Niagara Falls]; about 1855. Daguerreotype.

In the 1800s Prospect Point at Niagara Falls was a popular destination for travelers in search of a transcendent encounter with nature. The falls were revered as a sacred place that was recognized by the Catholic Church in 1861 as a “pilgrim shrine,” where the faithful could contemplate the landscape as an example of divine majesty.

Platt D. Babbitt would customarily set up his camera in an open-sided pavilion and photograph groups of tourists admiring the falls without their knowledge, as he appears to have done here. Later he would sell the unsuspecting subjects their daguerreotype likenesses alongside the natural wonder. | quoted from Getty Museum

Platt D. Babbitt :: [Scene at Niagara Falls], ca. 1855. Daguerreotype | src Getty Museum Collection

Two well-dressed couples are seen from behind as they stand on the shore downstream from the falls, gazing at its majestic splendor. The silhouetted forms–women wearing full skirts and bonnets and carrying umbrellas and men in stovepipe hats–are sharply outlined against the patch of shore and expansive, white foam. | quoted from Getty Museum

Platt D. Babbitt :: Photograph shows men in morning coats and top hats standing at the side of Niagara Falls [ca. 1854]
Platt D. Babbitt :: [Niagara Falls] [ca. 1854] whole-plate ambrotype on case | src Library of Congress
Photograph shows men in morning coats and top hats standing at the side of Niagara Falls.

Nudes by Nell Dorr, 1928-1929

Nell Dorr (1893-1988) :: Flower Laden, 1928-1929. Gelatin silver print. | src Amon Carter Museum of American Art
Nell Dorr (1893-1988) :: Vine Leaves, 1928-1929. Gelatin silver print. | src Amon Carter Museum of American Art
Nell Dorr (1893-1988) :: Flower Laden, 1928-1929. Gelatin silver print. | src Amon Carter Museum of American Art

Greece, 1952 by Ernst Haas

Ernst Haas (American-Austrian, 1921-1986) :: Greece, 1952. Gelatin silver print, printed 1990s. Photographer’s Estate stamp on verso. | src Heritage Auctions Jan. 2022

Sunset Autochromes by Jacob Olie

Jacob Olie jr. ~ Zonsondergang boven zee | Sunset over the sea, ca. 1913 – ca. 1927. Autochrome | src Rijksmuseum
Jacob Olie jr. ~ Zonsondergang boven een landschap | Sunset over a landscape, ca. 1913 – ca. 1927. Autochrome | src Rijksmuseum
Jacob Olie jr. ~ Zonsondergang boven een landschap | Sunset over a landscape, ca. 1913 – ca. 1927. Autochrome | src Rijksmuseum
Jacob Olie jr. ~ Zonsondergang boven zee | Sunset over the sea, ca. 1913 – ca. 1927. Autochrome | src Rijksmuseum

Wendt’s Landscapes

Lionel Wendt :: Silence, ca. 1930s-1940s, photogravure, from Lionel Wendt’s Ceylon (London, Lincolns-Prager Publishers Ltd, 1950). | src British Art Studies
Lionel Wendt :: [unknown title] Wirawila Beach, Sri Lanka, Landscape. Photogravure print, 1940s. | src vintageads on eBay
Lionel Wendt :: [unknown title], Sri Lanka, Sea, Landscape. Photogravure print, 1940s. | src vintageads on eBay

Wendt’s photomontages

Lionel Wendt :: Gay Abandon, ca. 1940, photogravure, from Lionel Wendt’s Ceylon (London, Lincolns-Prager Publishers Ltd, 1950) | src British Art Studies
Lionel Wendt :: Adventures in Space, ca. 1930s-1940s, photogravure, from Lionel Wendt’s Ceylon (London, Lincolns-Prager Publishers Ltd, 1950) | src British Art Studies

Wendt’s photomontage has been most conventionally and variously comprehended through its pastiche of influences and motifs such as De Chirico’s futurist arches, Magritte’s “Ceci n’est pas un oeuf,” Piero della Francesca’s Brera Madonna, Georges Bataille’s rumination on the story of the eye, and the recurrent vignette of a distant brig. Although he clearly held great admiration for those artistic circles he came into contact with in Europe, it seems a bit too summary merely to insert him within these narratives. (quoted from source)

Niagara falls, ca. 1860

George Barker :: Hanging Rock, Niagara Falls, ca. 1860. Albumen silver print. | src MFAH ~ Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
George Barker :: Hanging Rock, Niagara Falls, ca. 1860. Albumen silver print. | src MFAH ~ Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
George Barker :: Niagara – Winter view; ca. 1860. Albumen silver print. | src MFAH ~ Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
George Barker :: Niagara – Winter view; ca. 1860. Albumen silver print. | src MFAH ~ Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
George Barker :: The rapids above Niagara Falls, ca. 1860. Albumen silver print. | src MFAH ~ Museum of Fine Arts, Houston