Thursday, January 25, 2024

Visual Relics (1912-1923)

Jacques-Henri Lartigue
Anteuil
1912
gelatin silver print
Denver Art Museum

Augustus Jackson Thibaudeau
New York Public Library
1912
platinum print
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

Augustus Jackson Thibaudeau
Portrait of a Young Girl
1913
platinum print
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

August Sander
Small-Town Women
ca. 1913
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Jacob Olie
Self Portrait
1913
autochrome
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Sherril Schell
Portrait of Rupert Brooke
1913
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, London

Alice Mills
Portrait of Joan Margaret Syme as a Bacchante
ca. 1918
hand-colored gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Emil Otto Hoppé
Soldiers playing Cricket in the Moat of the Tower of London
1919
gelatin silver print
Yale Center for British Art

Edward S. Curtis
Aphrodite
ca. 1920
gelatin silver print
Denver Art Museum

Baron Adolf de Meyer
Portrait of Éva Gauthier
ca. 1920
gelatin silver print
Denver Art Museum

Baron Adolf de Meyer
Dolores
(fashion shot for Vogue)
1921
gelatin silver print
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
(Achenbach Foundation)

Lewis Wickes Hine
Power House Mechanic
ca. 1921
gelatin silver print
Brooklyn Museum

"The clean muscularity and precise industrial order presented by Lewis Hine in Power House Mechanic demonstrates the photographer's shift, in 1919, from a gritty documentary style to what he called "interpretive photography" – an approach intended to raise the stature of industrial workers, who were increasingly diminished by the massive machinery they operated. Despite his concern for the worker, Hine's use of hand-selected and precisely posed models actually helped to cement the pictorial formulas employed by burgeoning corporate public-relations departments."

– from curator's notes at the Brooklyn Museum

Bertram Park
Dame Gladys Cooper
1922
chlorobromide print
National Portrait Gallery, London

August Sander
Bohemians (Willi Bongard and Gottfried Brockman)
ca. 1922
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Imogen Cunningham
Photographers Edward Weston and Margrethe Mather
1923
gelatin silver print
Yale University Art Gallery