Pictorialism, an approach to photography that emphasizes beauty of subject matter, tonality, and composition rather than the documentation of reality. The Pictorialist perspective was born in the late 1860s and held sway through the first decade of the 20th century. It approached the camera as a tool that, like the paintbrush and chisel, could be used to make an artistic statement. Thus photographs could have aesthetic value and be linked to the world of art expression. Constant Puyo, 1903 Constant Puyo, Apparition, 1910 Constant Puyo, 1896 Constant Puyo, 1896 Constant Puyo, 1896 Constant Puyo, 1896 Constant Puyo, 1896 Constant Puyo, 1896 Constant Puyo, 1896 Constant Puyo, 1896 Adolph de Meyer, 1896 Adolph de Meyer, 1896 Adolph de Meyer, 1896 Adolph de Meyer, 1896 Baron Adolph De Meyer - The Cup, 1896 Baron Adolph De Meyer The Black Bowl by George Seeley, circa 1907 Portrait of Martine McCulloch by Gertrude Käsebier, 1910 Mary Pickford, 1917 by Nelson Evans Dolores, Vogue, May 1919 by Adolph de Meyer
Picture ThisThe Strange • The Old • The Terrifying. Creepy vintage photos to enjoy before bedtime.
love this one. for many more unusual, beautiful and bizarre snapshots, see my 'perculiar snapshots' set.
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Gaze at one hundred years of people knitting.
A small collection of old color photographs of life in Ireland in 1913.
Old photograph of a gypsy with her daughter outside a thatched cottage in Glencoe, Scotland. Highland Travellers also known as Tinkers are closely tied to the native Highlands, and many traveller families carry clan names like Macfie, Stewart, MacDonald, Cameron, Williamson and Macmillan. They followed a nomadic or settled lifestyle; passing from village to village and are strongly identified with the native Gaelic speaking population. Continuing their nomadic life, they would often pitch their tents on rough ground on the edge of the village and earn money there as tinsmiths, hawkers, horse dealers or pearl fishermen. Many found seasonal employment on farms, e.g. at the berry picking or during harvest time. All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission. View the most recent Tour Scotland photographs.
Nuns live under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience so it's not uncommon for us to see them always prim and proper. As someone who went to a Catholic school, I'd often see them with their hands tucked neatly in their habits.
Constant Puyo, 1903 Pictorialism , an approach to photography that emphasizes beauty of subject matter, tonality, and composition rather than the documentation
Some call the combination of gardens and cities a perfect match, some a utopian vision. Culture.pl looks at how an Englishman’s idea was introduced in Poland and if it worked.
Powerful Photos Of Glasgow Slums 1969-72
Belgian painter Alfonse Van Besten (1865-1926) embraced technology, utilising innovative color processes to transfer black and white photographs into vivid, at times lurid autochromes. The tableaux of his autochromes (a technology patented by the Lumière brothers in 1903 and the first colour photographic process developed on an industrial scale) are often bucolic and romantic. Demure ladies and … Continue reading "Alfonse Van Besten’s Dreamy Autochromes (1910-1915)"
Carl Størmer was a Norwegian mathematician and physicist who's best known for number theory and studying auroras. Aside from his intellectual pursuits,
I have good reason to be grateful to Edward Linley Sambourne. My original post about his street photography (Street Style 1906) has been the most popular single item on this blog and has brought in…
Once upon a time, before Instagram, a group of young friends went on a camping trip and captured some pretty great memories. More than a hundred years have passed, but time has stood still for these smiley Victorians in black & white – almost as if a friend has returned home from their weekend o
The Blue Bird is a 1908 play by Belgian playwright and poet Maurice Maeterlinck. It premiered on 30 September 1908 at Konstantin Stanislavs...
Exhibition dates: 7th February 2009 – 31st May 2009 George Davison (English, 1854-1930) The Onion Field 1889 George Davison (19 September 1854 – 26 December …
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Consuelo with a very young Winston Churchill
Photos by Heinrich Kühn Mary Warner, Lotte und Walter Kühn.1907 Mary Warner with Edeltrude Kühn, 1908 Les enfants Kühn-Die Kühn Kinder,1913 White Excursion, 1907 Windblown,1911 *** Lotte, Walter and Miss Mary in winter clothes, circa 1908 Hans Kühn, 1907-1908. Portrait of the Kühn children ,1904…
Leonard Misonne was a master pictorialist photographer, whose atmospheric landscapes and street scenes are among the finest pictorial depictions of such subject matter. He was an engineer turned pa…
I think it’s one of the ways we deal with pain, I like to think that it happens subconsciously. I don’t know if it’s a good thing or not. If it’s the right thing to do or not but it helps a little. I was bullied in secondary school and it was the time of […]
The rise of photography in the mid-late 19th-century began the move away from an oral and literary tradition towards one based on image. A photograph can describe a moment in time more viscerally than the written word. Think of that picture of Jack Ruby shooting Lee Harvey Oswald. A million words have been written … Continue reading "The Astonishing Cinematic Autochrome Photography of Heinrich Kühn"
I love the wild and free look of the young girl. Grandpa has a sword. The integration of the cultures was inevitable, and the approximate form of the Japanese Kimono has already been adopted. The main Photo and Comments about these fine folks are HERE : www.flickr.com/photos/24443965@N08/2746187012/ My entire AINU Set (still only a few photos) is HERE : www.flickr.com/photos/24443965@N08/sets/72157607060944155/ Both the Okinawans and the Ainu have plenty of bones to pick with the current occupying over-lords who control things from their bureaucratic bunkers in Tokyo. It's not unlike the Native "Indians" of the Americas who have a pile of bones to pick with the Europeans who over-ran them. Although everybody seems to agree that there's no going back, that's no excuse for the way people have been treated by the usurpers and over-runners during the endless centuries of human expansion. When it comes to recognizing the existence of the Ainu, the modern Japanese have, until very recently, been complete and total idiots over the matter. From a ca.1920 collotype photograph published in Japan. Photographer unknown. RANDOM SOBA : www.flickriver.com/photos/24443965@N08/random/
A British Postman on his rounds, London Blitz 1940
Belgian painter Alfonse Van Besten (1865-1926) embraced technology, utilising innovative color processes to transfer black and white photographs into vivid, at times lurid autochromes. The tableaux of his autochromes (a technology patented by the Lumière brothers in 1903 and the first colour photographic process developed on an industrial scale) are often bucolic and romantic. Demure ladies and … Continue reading "Alfonse Van Besten’s Dreamy Autochromes (1910-1915)"
A rare book which was one of the first examples of social documentary photography has been put up for auction
why do these beautiful vintage ladies look so sad? probably because they had to sit so still to have their photos taken. click on the images for their sources.
