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| William Henry Fox Talbot Oak Tree in Winter ca. 1842-43 salted paper print Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| William Craven, 2nd Earl of Craven View of Ashdown ca. 1855 photographic print Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Gustave Le Gray Cavalry Maneuvers, Camp de Châlons 1857 albumen silver print Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Eugène Cuvelier Fontainebleau Forest ca. 1860-65 salted paper print from paper negative Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Anonymous Photographer Cloud Study ca. 1870-90 albumen silver print Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Adolphe Braun Gambarogno, Switzerland ca. 1875-82 albumen silver print Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| George Hendrik Breitner Winter along the Singel, Amsterdam ca. 1890-1910 gelatin silver print Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Frederick H. Evans Kelmscott - The Thames near the Manor 1896 lantern slide Art Institute of Chicago |
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| F. Holland Day Zaida Ben Yusuf 1898 platinum print Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Baron Adolf De Meyer Glass and Shadows 1905 photogravure Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Arthur F. Kales Dancing Nymph ca. 1917 platinum print Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Eugène Atget Saint-Cloud 1926 albumen silver print Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Walker Evans Wall Street Windows ca. 1928-30 gelatin silver print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Lisette Model Running Legs, New York ca. 1940-41 gelatin silver print National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa |
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| Saul Leiter Canopy 1958 silver dye bleach print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| René Burri Chicago Illinois USA 1971 1971 C-print Tate Gallery, London |
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| Angela Grauerholz Window 1988 C-Print Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York |
CONTRE-JOUR – Éclairage tel que la lumière frappe les objets du côté opposé à la direction dans laquelle on regarde.
Face à la mer et au soleil, un contre-jour d'argent m'aveugle . . . – Paul Morand (1930)