“Photography is a kingdom of glamour
and banality.” A.O. Scott
Daguerreotype
Portraiture
Mme. Daguerre, ca. 1840
Daguerre, Boulevard du Temple, 1839
Paul Delaroche, 1839: “As of today painting is dead.”
“La peinture est morte à partie de ce jour.”
But he kept painting. . . (Napoleon crossing the Alps, 1848)
Ars photographica
The Art of Photography
Breathed on by the mirrors of the sun,
A brilliant image appears
How beautifully it reflects the forehead,
The light of the eye, the charm of the mouth.
Oh marvelous power of the mind,
Nature’s new creation
Not even the hand of Appeles, the Master,
Could have produced it more effectively.
Pope Leo XIII (r. 1878-1903)
“Ars photographica”/ “The Art of Photography”
Daguerreotype
Portraiture
Daguerreotype
Portraiture
Daguerreotype
Portrait of E.A. Poe
Ca. 1840
E.A. Poe,
“The Daguerreotype”
1840
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Daguerreotype
Erotica
Eugénie de la Délassements-Comique
Les insoumises
by Vaury, 1865
.
Erotic
Ethnographic
1847 a south-east Australian Aboriginal
and two younger companions
Medical
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Daguerreotypes:
Portraits of another kind
Daguerreotypes
For multiple uses
Andreas Ritter von Ettinghausen, Clematis Stem, microscopic cross-section , 1840, daguerreotype, Vienna
Ettinghausen 1840
Is Painting Dead?
Delaroche, Bonaparte Crossing the Alps
1848
Daguerre, Fossils and Shells, 1839
Crystal objects (1844)
William Henry Fox-Talbot
British
Alphonse Bertillon Teaching his System at the Paris Prefécture of Police. “Sérvice de l’Identité judicaire: cours de
Signalement descriptif (Portrait Parle)” Prefécture de Police, Paris.
Bertillon’s Lesson on physiognomic resemblance: Women of the same race (Roma) “Gitanes”
Twin brothers. Possible to identify types and individuals.
Archaeological photography Giorgio Sommer, ca. 1875
Cast Figures at Pompeii
Textbook on Greek Sculpture, Emanuel Löwy, (Freud’s best friend) 1911
Egyptian mummy portrait and ruins: Seti I and the Stele of Ramses II
James Henry Breasted, A History of Egypt, 1905
Vincenzo Galdi, Naples, ca. 1907
French, carte-de-visite, 1860’s
Ethnographic/erotic
Classicism/ Orientalism: Italy and Egypt
Erotic/exotic/classical/slippage
The Slave Market
Jean Léone Gérôme 1866
oil on canvas
Egyptian woman by French photographer
Carte-de-visite 1860’s
J. Barnett and Co.: Young Xosa [Xhosa] Woman in Costume; Wood Bowls and Gourd Container Nearby
n.d. [late nineteenth century].
Young Xhosa Woman, ca. 1870
see Titian, Manet
Ethnography or erotica?
.
Presence of colonialism?
Eugène Durieu nude study 1853-4
Delacroix Odalisque
Photographs for use by artists and designers (Orientalist subject by Delacroix)
Algerian woman, photograph, 1892
Gaétan Gatian de Clérambault, Draped Figure, Morocco, 1917-20
Printed textiles, Mulhouse
Adolphe Braun, Flower Study for textile design
Colmar 1854-5
William Morris
Photographs for use by artists and designers
Brooch, Jugendstil, Vienna ca. 1900
Martin Gerlach, A World of Forms in Nature 1902-4
Photographs for use by artists and designers
Film still 1896 Dr. Camillo Negro, Turin, Italy
Dr. Charcot, Paris, photograph
Medical and Psychiatric Photography
Medical and Psychiatric Photography
Jean-Martin Charcot, La Salpêtrière, Paris
Hysterical Epileptic Contracture and Melancholic Delirium
Bourneville and Regnard (photographers), L’Iconographie photographique
Sarah Bernhardt as Phaedre
Medical and Psychiatric Photography
Jean-Martin Charcot, La Salpêtrière, Paris
Woman with Aneurism after “accidental shooting”
4 months pregnant at time of photograph
Medical Photograph, USA, 1871 (slavery ended 1865) She was probably a slave.
John Draper, Orion Nebula, ca. 1880
Making the Invisible Visible
Albert Montessier, photomicrographs
1866
Frederick A. Hudson (England)
Lady Helena Newenham
and the Spirit of Her Daughter
June 4, 1872
Making the invisible visible:
Spirit Photography
Making the invisible visible: Spirit Photography, Russia ca. 1905
X-ray negative
Sun Fish
1896
Josef-Maria Eder (1855-1944)
Photochemist/ Historian of Photography
Royal Imperial School Institute for Graphic and Photographic Research, 1888
Vienna, Capital of Austro-Hungarian Empire
X-ray Photograph
Josef-Maria Eder
Royal Imperial Institute for Graphic and Photographic Research, Vienna
1896
Gustav Klimt
Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer (NY, Neue Galerie)
Vienna 1907
Emil
E Zuckerkändel had him look through
A microscope at his wife’s salon
Ferdinand Schenk, Vienna ca. 1890
Microscopies of acid on metal surfaces
Roland Barthes 1915-1980
Mme. Barthes and her son, Roland
ca. 1920