Monday, December 7, 2009

Man Ray, Compass



Man Ray
Compass
Gelatin Silver Print
1920
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC
4 5/8 x 3 3/8 in

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Thursday, July 23, 2009

Dr. Harold Edgerton, Milk Drop Coronet




Dr. Harold Edgerton
Milk Drop Coronet
C-type print
1957

© Harold & Esther Edgerton Foundation, 2002
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Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Duchamp, by Alfred Stieglitz



Alfred Stieglitz
Duchamp
Gelatin Silver Print
1923

Eddie Adams, General Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing a Viet Cong prisoner in Saigon



Eddie Adams
General Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing a Viet Cong prisoner in Saigon
Gelatin Silver Print
February 1, 1968

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Monday, June 22, 2009

Ludwig Zehnder, X-Ray photograph of a Human Body



Ludwig Zehnder
X-Ray photograph of a Human Body
montage of nine x-ray films
1896
Deutsches Museum, Munich

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H. H. Bennett, Instant Photograph



H. H. Bennett
Instant Photograph
1885
H. H. Bennett Collection

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Thursday, June 18, 2009

Jacques Henri Charles au Lartigue, Soapbox Derbies. Continued...



Jacques Henri Charles au Lartigue
Soapbox Derbies. Continued...
Gelatin Silver Print
1911

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Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Dorothea Lange, Migrant agricultural worker's family (Migrant Mother)



Dorothea Lange
Migrant agricultural worker's family. Seven children without food. Mother aged thirty-two. Father is a native Californian. Nipomo, California (Photograph shows Florence Thompson with two of her children as part of the "Migrant Mother" series)
1936
The Library of Congress

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Edward Weston, Nude



Edward Weston
Nude
1925
Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson

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Alfred Stieglitz, The Steerage



Alfred Stieglitz
The Steerage
photogravure
1907

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Mathew Brady, Civil War Battlefield



Mathew Brady
Civil War Battlefield
1862
daguerreotype

Friday, June 12, 2009

Upper Torso Darkroom Tent, illustration



Upper Torso Darkroom Tent
1859

Dark room tent, type used for doing wet-plate collodion photography, illustration



Dark room tent, type used for doing wet-plate collodion photography
1850s

Adolf Miethe, Trichrome



Adolf Miethe
Trichrome
trichrome
1903
Fachhochschule, Cologne

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Paul Strand, Blind Woman



Paul Strand
Blind Woman
photogravure
1912
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu

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Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Photo of John Singer Sargent Painting Outdoors



Photo of John Singer Sargent Painting Outdoors
c. 1885

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George Inness in His Studio



George Inness in His Studio
1890
Smithsonian Institute, Archives of American Art

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Photo of Egon Schiele



Photo of Egon Schielez
c. 1918

Arthur Rothstein, Farmer and sons walking in the face of a dust storm. Cimarron County, Oklahoma



Arthur Rothstein
Farmer and sons walking in the face of a dust storm. Cimarron County, Oklahoma
April 1936
Library of Congress

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Timothy O'Sullivan, Ancient ruins in the Cañon de Chelle



Timothy O'Sullivan
Ancient ruins in the Cañon de Chelle
albumen print
27.5 x 20.2 cm
Library of Congress

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Tuesday, June 9, 2009

William Henry Fox Talbot, Tree



William Henry Fox Talbot
Tree
calotype
c. 1842

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Departure of the Dirgible Zodiac III



Léon Gimpel
Departure of the Dirgible Zodiac III
August 28, 1909
Sociéte Francaise de Photographie, Paris

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Above the Clouds Midnight Passes



Max Ernst
Above the Clouds Midnight Passes
photographic enlargement of a photomontage
1920
28 3/4 x 21 3/4 in
Graphische Sammlung, Kunsthaus, Zürich

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Edmond Audemars in a Blériot XI



Jacques Henri Charles au Lartigue
Edmond Audemars in a Blériot XI
from a stereoscopic glass negative
September 15, 1912
6 x 13 cm

President Lincoln at Sharpsburg (Antietam)



Alexander Gardner and Timothy O'Sullivan
President Lincoln at Sharpsburg (Antietam)
wet collodion, glass
1862
The Library of Congress

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Thursday, June 4, 2009

Lewis Hine, Breaker Boys



Lewis Hine
Breaker Boys, Noon hour in the Ewen Breaker, Pennsylvania Coal Co. Location: South Pittston, Pennsylvania
January 1911
The Library of Congress

Ulysses S. Grant, photo and engraving from Harper's Weekly



Ulysses S. Grant
photo and engraving from Harper's Weekly
gelatin silver print and wood engraving

Lumière Brothers, Young Lady with an Umbrella



Lumière Brothers
Young Lady with an Umbrella
autochrome
c. 1906
Fondation Nationale de la Photographie, Lyons, France

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Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Gettysburg, Pa. Dead Confederate soldier in Devil's Den



Alexander Gardner
Gettysburg, Pa. Dead Confederate soldier in Devil's Den
wet collodion
July 1863
The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

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A Harvest of Death



Timothy H. O'Sullivan
printed by Alexander Gardner
A Harvest of Death
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
albumen silver print
July 1863
The Getty Museum

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Lewis Carroll, Alice Liddell



Lewis Carroll
Alice Liddell
albumen print
1859

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Oscar Gustave Rejlander, The Two Ways of Life



Oscar Gustave Rejlander
The Two Ways of Life
Combination albumen print
1857
Edinburgh Photographic Society

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Etienne Jules Marey, Camera Gun



Etienne Jules Marey
Camera Gun
1882

F-Stops Diagram

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Man Ray, Le Violon d’Ingres



Man Ray
Le Violon d’Ingres
gelatin silver print
1924

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Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, The Hand of Mrs. Wilhelm Roentgen (the first X-ray image)



Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
The Hand of Mrs. Wilhelm Roentgen (the first X-ray image)
X-ray
1895

Eadweard Muybridge, Animal Locomotion



Eadweard Muybridge
Animal Locomotion
Collotype
1887

Phototelegraphy, Hindenburg



Photo transmitted by radio from New York to London on May 11, 1936, announcing the arival of the dirgible Hindenburg at Lakehurst
Phototelegraphy
May 11, 1936
private collection

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Anonymous, Girl on Chair



Anonymous
Girl on Chair
hand-colored albumen copy print of a daguerreotype
c. 1850
Collection Beaumont Newhall, Santa Fe

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