Luminous-Lint - for collectors and connoisseurs of fine photography
LL/38279
Choiselat & Ratel
Landscape with Cottage
1845
Daguerreotype
6 7/16 x 8 9/16 ins (16.4 x 21.7 cm)
 
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Louis V. Bell Fund, 1994 (1994.417)
 
LL/38279

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LL/36397
Thomas Easterly
Chouteau's Pond, South to Eight and Gratiot
1851, 18 July
Daguerreotype
 
Missouri Historical Society
Courtesy of the Missouri History Museum, Thomas Easterly Collection N17018.
 
LL/36397 [Further details available]

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LL/42637
Louis-Adolphe Humbert de Molard
Louis Dodier, en prisonnier
1847
Daguerreotype
11.5 x 15.5 cm
 
Musée d'Orsay
(C) RMN (Musée d'Orsay) / Hervé Lewandowski, Europeana Identifier: RMNDO000000367682 ; PHO1988-4
 
LL/42637

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LL/42627
Auguste Belloc & Félix Jacques Antoine Moulin
Femme sur un lit
1855 (ca)
Daguerreotype, stereo, half
8.5 x 17.3 cm
 
Musée d'Orsay
(C) RMN (Musée d'Orsay) / Droits réservés, Europeana Identifier: RMNDO000000494451 ; PHO1986-125
 
LL/42627

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LL/43170
Juan Laurent
Courtship
1870s
Albumen print
33.4 x 25.3 cm
 
Ken & Jenny Jacobson
 
LL/43170

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LL/43687
Marie-Alexandre Alophe
Le Ruisseau [Reclining female nude]
1860s (ca)
Albumen print
21 x 16 cm
 
Bassenge Photography Auctions
Photography 19th-21st Century (1 June 2011) Lot: 4010
 
LL/43687

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LL/12742
J. Craig Annan
Der Franciscaner
[Wiener Photographische Blätter: Herausgegeben Vom Camera-Club In Wien]
1896, September
Photogravure
 
Photoseed
Photograph courtesy PhotoSeed.com
 
LL/12742 [Further details available]

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LL/39983
Juan Laurent
Etude pour peintre, Moine
1865 (ca)
Albumen print
25 x 33 cm
 
Photo Verdeau
 
LL/39983

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LL/14341
J. Craig Annan
Les Frères Blanc
[Photo-Club de Paris / 1896, Pl. XIV]
1896
Heliogravure / Photogravure
9.9 x 9.1 cm
 
Photoseed
Photograph courtesy PhotoSeed.com
 
LL/14341 [Further details available]

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LL/9506
Hill & Adamson
William Leighton Leitch, the Drawing Master to Queen Victoria and a Landscape Painter and Watercolorist (1804-1883)
1843-1847
Calotype
7.75 x 5.5 in (197 x 140 mm)
 
Charles Schwartz Ltd
Courtesy of Charles Schwartz (#4229)
 
LL/9506 [Further details available]

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LL/9304
Robert Demachy
Etude
[Photo-Club de Paris / 1895, Pl. II]
1895
Photogravure
 
Antiq-Photo
Courtesy of Anthony Davis - Antiq-photo / Rainbow creations (www.19cPhoto.com)
 
LL/9304 [Further details available]

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LL/45182
Robert Demachy
Struggle
1903 (or earlier)
Gum bichromate print
17.4 x 11.6 cm (6 7/8 x 4 9/16 ins) (image)
 
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gift of Isaac Lagnado, in honor of Thomas P. Campbell, 2008, Accession Number: 2008.666.3
 
LL/45182

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LL/8310
Nikolai Andreev
Portrait of an Old Peasant
1930
 
Moscow House of Photography
Moscow House Of Photography (Private collection)
 
LL/8310

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LL/31206
Julia Margaret Cameron
Sir Henry Taylor [A study in the manner of Rembrandt]
1865
Albumen print
10 x 7 1/2 in (25.4 x 19.1 cm)
 
Swann Galleries - New York
Courtesy of Swann Galleries (Auction Oct 21, 2008, Lot 13)
 
LL/31206 [Further details available]

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LL/8689
Gustave Marissiaux
VII. Figure de Vieillard, étude
[Visions d'Artistes (1908)]
1908
Photogravure
16.7 x 11.5 cm
 
AnamorFose
Courtesy of Xavier Debeerst (Anamorfose - www.anamorfose.be)
 
LL/8689

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LL/7515
Guido Rey
The Letter
1908
Platinum print
8 3/4 x 5 1/2 in
 
J. Paul Getty Museum
The J. Paul Getty Trust (85.XP.314.7)
 
LL/7515

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LL/41762
Guido Rey
Costume Scene
1910 (ca)
Platinum print
 
National Science and Media Museum
The Royal Photographic Society, Ref Number: 2003-5001/2/21193
 
LL/41762

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LL/41761
Guido Rey
Seventeenth Century Costume Piece
1910 (ca)
Platinum print
 
National Science and Media Museum
The Royal Photographic Society, Ref Number: 2003-5001/2/21190
 
LL/41761

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LL/35915
Richard Polak
The Little Boat
1919 (published)
Book plate
 
Internet Archive
 
LL/35915 [Further details available]

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LL/35939
Richard Polak
La malaise imaginaire
1914
Book plate
 
Internet Archive
 
LL/35939 [Further details available]

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LL/35961
Richard Polak
Nasty medicine
1915
Book plate
 
Internet Archive
 
LL/35961 [Further details available]

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LL/44791
Robert Demachy
Untitled (young girl)
1880-1900 (ca)
Gelatin print
14 x 11.4 cm (5 1/2 x 4 1/2 ins)
 
Yale University Art Gallery
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Lee, 1984.96.12
 
LL/44791

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LL/44786
Gertrude Käsebier
Maternity
1897
Gumprint
29.8 x 21.4 cm (sheet)
 
Yale University Art Gallery
Everett V. Meeks, B.A. 1901, Fund, 1975.20
 
LL/44786

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LL/45920
John Robert Parsons
Jane Morris, seated on divan, Three-quarter length
1865-1890
Albumen print, toned
33 x 39 cm
 
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
Accession number: 1941P359.6
 
LL/45920 [Further details available]

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LL/14119
Henry Peach Robinson
Temps orageux
[Photo-Club de Paris / 1894, Pl. LIV]
1894
Heliogravure / Photogravure
15.9 x 12.6 cm
 
Photoseed
Photograph courtesy PhotoSeed.com
 
LL/14119 [Further details available]

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LL/14848
René Le Begue
Bouquet de greves
[Photo-Club de Paris / 1897, Pl. XXIV]
1897
Heliogravure / Photogravure
19.3 x 15.3 cm
 
Photoseed
Photograph courtesy PhotoSeed.com
 
LL/14848 [Further details available]

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LL/6546
José Ortiz-Echagüe
Basque Oarsman [sp. Remero Vasco]
1931
Carbon Fresson print
 
Ortiz Echagüe Collection - Legado Ortiz Echagüe
© Ortiz Echague Collection-University of Navarra - Legado Ortiz Echague-Universidad de Navarra. Fundacion Universitaria de Navarra
 
LL/6546

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LL/45214
Dührkoop & Dièz-Dührkoop
Hans Heinz Ewers
1907 (ca)
Bromoil print
 
National Science and Media Museum
Ref Number: 2003-5001/2/20085
 
LL/45214 [Further details available]

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LL/45162
Frank Eugene
The Archer
1900s
Photogravure
17.4 x 11.9 cm (6 7/8 x 4 11/16 ins)
 
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Rogers Fund, 1972, Accession Number: 1972.633.57
 
LL/45162 [Further details available]

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LL/45170
Alvin Langdon Coburn
The White Bridge - Venice
1906
Gum bichromate over platinum print
36.6 x 29.0 cm (14 7/16 x 11 7/16 ins)
 
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1933, Accession Number: 33.43.212
 
LL/45170

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LL/48088
Miguel Goicoechea (1894-1983)
Una calle de Pamplona
1920-1930
Gum bichromate print
23 x 17 cm (image) 43 x 36 cm (mount)
 
Soler y LLach
Photographs and Photobooks Auction, 7 June 2012, Lot: 82
 
LL/48088

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LL/44656
Oscar Gustave Rejlander
Too Late
1857 (ca)
Albumen print
19.4 x 14.5 cm (7 5/8 x 5 11/16 ins)
 
Princeton University Art Museum
Museum purchase, anonymous gift, Object Number: x1993-17
 
LL/44656

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LL/33536
Unidentified photographer
Film still from "Die Nibelungen", directed by Fritz Lang
1923-1924
Gelatin silver print
30 x 24 cm
 
Bassenge Photography Auctions
Courtesy of Bassenge, Berlin (Photography, Dec 2, 2009, Sale: 94, Lot: 4191)
 
LL/33536

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LL/880
Brassaï
Festivities in Bayonne
1935
 
Moscow House of Photography
 
LL/880

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LL/31238
Roman Vishniac
The Street of Isaac, Cracow
[The Vanished World]
1938 (taken) 1960s (print)
Silver print
13 1/4 x 10 1/2 in (33.7 x 26.7 cm)
 
Swann Galleries - New York
Swann Galleries (Auction Oct 21, 2008, Lot 99), © Mara Vishniac Kohn
 
LL/31238 [Further details available]

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LL/1301
Tom Kearcher
Berkeley Series #24
1990
Photogravure
5 3/4 x 5 11/16
 
S K Josefberg Studio (CLOSED - 2004)
 
LL/1301

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LL/41815
Roger Fenton
Pasha and Bayadere
1858
Albumen print
 
National Science and Media Museum
 
LL/41815 [Further details available]

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LL/45916
Henry Peach Robinson
She Never Told Her Love
1857
Albumen print
 
National Gallery of Art
Paul Mellon Fund
 
LL/45916 [Further details available]

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LL/45917
Henry Peach Robinson
Fading Away
1858
Albumen print
 
National Science and Media Museum
The Royal Photographic Society Collection, Purchased with the assistance of The Art Fund
 
LL/45917 [Further details available]

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LL/37316
Walter Barnes
The Apotheosis of Degas [Apothéose de Degas]
1885
Silver print from a silver gelatine glass negative, pasted on card
9 x 11 cm
 
Musée d'Orsay
© photo RMN, PHO 2006 5 1
 
LL/37316 [Further details available]

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LL/14355
J. Mantélier
Obstination
[Photo-Club de Paris / 1896, Pl. XXVII]
1896
Heliogravure / Photogravure
14.0 x 17.5 cm
 
Photoseed
Photograph courtesy PhotoSeed.com
 
LL/14355 [Further details available]

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LL/22597
Frank Asakichi Kunishige
The Dark Before Dawn
1924 (ca)
Gelatin silver print
9.25 x 12 in
 
University of Washington Libraries - Digital Collections
University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections (PH Coll 343.8)
 
LL/22597 [Further details available]

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LL/14859
Count Aleksander von Tyszkiewicz
Scene d'intérieur Empire
[Photo-Club de Paris / 1897, Pl. XXXV]
1897
Heliogravure / Photogravure
16.0 x 22.1 cm
 
Photoseed
Photograph courtesy PhotoSeed.com
 
LL/14859 [Further details available]

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LL/16436
Count Aleksander von Tyszkiewicz
Der Besuch
[Die Kunst in der Photographie (Art Folio #4)]
1898
Photogravure-Chine-collé
15.1 x 20.6 cm
 
Photoseed
Photograph courtesy PhotoSeed.com
 
LL/16436 [Further details available]

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LL/44653
Emile Joachim Constant Puyo
Mélancolie
1900 (ca)
Bromoil transfer print
image: 26.1 x 36.8 cm (10 1/4 x 14 1/2 ins) sheet: 38.5 x 50.7 cm (15 3/16 x 19 15/16 ins) (irregular)
 
Princeton University Art Museum
Museum purchase, anonymous gift, Object Number: x1992-127
 
LL/44653

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LL/9367
Ch. Commessy
Les Glaneuses
[Photo-Club de Paris / 1895, Pl. LVIII]
1895
Photogravure
 
Antiq-Photo
Courtesy of Anthony Davis - Antiq-photo / Rainbow creations (www.19cPhoto.com)
 
LL/9367 [Further details available]

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LL/18707
Hofmeister Brothers
Nachtgang
[Die Kunst in der Photographie (Art Folio #6)]
1900
Photogravure
14.5 x 20.3 cm
 
Photoseed
Photograph courtesy PhotoSeed.com
 
LL/18707 [Further details available]

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LL/45207
Frank Eugene
The Horse
1890 (ca)
Photogravure
 
National Science and Media Museum
Ref Number: 2003-5001/2/20021
 
LL/45207 [Further details available]

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LL/41615
Giorgio Sommer
Tarantella, Naples
1870 (ca)
Albumen print, photomontage
18.8 x 25.3 cm (7 3/8 x 9 15/16 ins) (image with border) 28 x 33 cm (11 x 13 ins) (mount)
 
Harvard Art Museum / Fogg Museum
Gift of Dr. Daniel Tassel, © President and Fellows of Harvard College, Item Identifier: P2003.200.B
 
LL/41615

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LL/44575
Oscar Gustave Rejlander
Child study after Raphael's Sistine Madonna
1854-1856 (ca)
Albumen print
20.5 x 26.3 cm (8 1/16 x 10 3/8 ins)
 
Princeton University Art Museum
Museum purchase, David H. McAlpin, Class of 1920, Fund, Object Number: x1976-203
 
LL/44575

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LL/8079
Jean-Baptiste Tournassoud
The Angelus
1915
Autochrome Lumière
13 x 18 cm
 
Association of the Friends of Jean-Baptiste Tournassoud
© Private collection / info@tournassoud.org
 
LL/8079

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LL/8066
Jean-Baptiste Tournassoud
Still life with apples
[S01]
1920 (ca)
Autochrome Lumière
13 x 18 cm
 
Association of the Friends of Jean-Baptiste Tournassoud
© Private collection / info@tournassoud.org
 
LL/8066

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LL/8100
Jean-Baptiste Tournassoud
Portrait of Geo with shawl [Georgette Tournassoud, aka "Geo", wife of Jean-Baptiste Tournassoud]
[P01]
1910 (ca)
Fresson carbon print from an Autochrome Lumière
13 x 18 cm
 
Bibliothèque Municipale de Lyon
© Bibliothèque Municipale de Lyon - France / info@tournassoud.org
 
LL/8100

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LL/24997
Anton Solomoukha
Untitled
[Petit Chaperon Rouge visite le Grand Louvre.]
n.d.
 
Galerie 208
 
LL/24997 [Further details available]

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LL/7232
Yasumasa Morimura
An Inner Dialogue with Frida Kahlo (Hand Shaped Earring)
2001
Color print
 
Institute of Contemporary Art
Courtesy of Luhring Augustine, New York.
 
LL/7232

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LL/18829
Neil Folberg
Cezanne: Rocher Rouge, Bibemus
[The French Impressionists]
2003-2005
Color print
 
Provided by the artist - Neil Folberg
© Neil Folberg, courtesy of the artist
 
LL/18829 [Further details available]

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LL/18815
Neil Folberg
Renoir: After the luncheon of the boating party
[The French Impressionists]
2003-2005
Color print
 
Provided by the artist - Neil Folberg
© Neil Folberg, courtesy of the artist
 
LL/18815 [Further details available]

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LL/27996
Nazif Topcuoglu
Lamentations
2007
Color print
 
Flatland Gallery
 
LL/27996

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Contents - Themes & Fragments
Agricultural and pastoral - Landscape: Agricultural
Agricultural and pastoral - Landscape: Agricultural: Harvesting, threshing and storage
Albumen prints - Albumen prints: Portraits
Allegorical photography - Allegorical photography
Appropriation - Appropriation
Art - Artistic studies of nude women
Art - Autochromes: Art
Art - Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879): Portraits
Art - Mimicing art within Pictorialism
Art - Neil Folberg: The French Impressionists
Art - Paintings and prints based on photographs or vice versa
Art - Photographs based on known paintings
Art - Photographs that are stylistically similar to paintings
Artist studies - Académies - Artistic studies of nude women
Austria - Wiener Photographische Blätter: Herausgegeben Vom Camera-Club In Wien (1896)
Autochromes - Autochromes: Art
Autochromes - Autochromes: Portrait
Autochromes - Examples of Autochromes
Belgium - Gustave Marissiaux: Visions d’Artistes (1908)
Celebrities - Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879): Portraits
Christianity - Priests, monks, bishops, pilgrims, missionaries, penitents, churchwardens and holy men
Colonialism - Cultural intersections and appropriation
Colour - Examples of Autochromes
Daguerreotypes - Daguerreotypes: Erotica and nudes
Daguerreotypes - Daguerreotypes: Exteriors
Daguerreotypes - Daguerreotypes: Landscapes
Daguerreotypes - Louis-Adolphe Humbert de Molard: Daguerreotype portraits
Daguerreotypes - Painted daguerreotypes
Daguerreotypes - Stereo daguerreotypes
Daguerreotypes - Thomas Easterly: Daguerreotypes
Daguerreotypists - France - Louis-Adolphe Humbert de Molard: Daguerreotype portraits
Die Kunst in der Photographie - Die Kunst in der Photographie (1898)
Die Kunst in der Photographie - Die Kunst in der Photographie (1900)
Emotions - Emotions
Emotions - Emotions: Maternal
Emotions - Robert Demachy: Struggle
England - A Record of the Photographic Salon of 1895 (London)
Erotica and nudes - Artistic studies of nude women
Erotica and nudes - Daguerreotypes: Erotica and nudes
Erotica and nudes - Frank Eugene: Nudes
Erotica and nudes - Introduction to erotica and nudes
Erotica and nudes - The female nude
Experimental and manipulated photography - Reflections in water
Fabricated realities - Mimicing art within Pictorialism
Family life - Motherhood
Film stills - Film stills
Filmmaking and cinema - Film stills
Flora - Apples
Forests - Landscape: Forests
Fruits - Apples
Germany - Pictorialism in Germany
Global trends in Pictorialism - Gustave Marissiaux: Visions d’Artistes (1908)
Global trends in Pictorialism - International connections between the Pictorialist photographic salons
Global trends in Pictorialism - José Ortiz-Echagüe (1886-1982)
Global trends in Pictorialism - Photo-Club de Paris: Deuxième Exposition d'Art Photographique - 1895
Global trends in Pictorialism - Photo-Club de Paris: Première Exposition d'Art Photographique - 1894
Global trends in Pictorialism - Photo-Club de Paris: Quatrième Année Salon de Photographie - 1897
Global trends in Pictorialism - Photo-Club de Paris: Troisième Exposition d'Art Photographique - 1896
Global trends in Pictorialism - Pictorialism in Germany
Global trends in Pictorialism - Pictorialism in Russia
Hand-painted photographs - Painted daguerreotypes
Judaism - The Holocaust: The Pre-Second World War setting
Lakes, ponds, meres, reed beds and lagoons - Thomas Easterly: Chouteau's Pond
Landscape - Daguerreotypes: Landscapes
Landscapes of North America - Landscape photography in nineteenth century North America
Landscapes of North America - Thomas Easterly: Chouteau's Pond
Linked Ring Brotherhood - A Record of the Photographic Salon of 1895 (London)
Literature - Using photographs to illustrate narratives: Mythological
Missouri - Thomas Easterly: Daguerreotypes
Multiple exposures - Appropriation
Narratives - Using photographs to illustrate narratives: Mythological
Netherlands - Introduction to photography in The Netherlands
Netherlands - Richard Polak: Costume pieces
Occupational - Priests, monks, bishops, pilgrims, missionaries, penitents, churchwardens and holy men
Orientalism - Roger Fenton: Oriental series
Painting on photographs - Painted daguerreotypes
Peoples of the world - Russians
Photo-Club de Paris - Photo-Club de Paris: Deuxième Exposition d'Art Photographique - 1895
Photo-Club de Paris - Photo-Club de Paris: Première Exposition d'Art Photographique - 1894
Photo-Club de Paris - Photo-Club de Paris: Quatrième Année Salon de Photographie - 1897
Photo-Club de Paris - Photo-Club de Paris: Troisième Exposition d'Art Photographique - 1896
Photogravures - Examples of photogravures
Pictorialism - Gum bichromate prints
Pictorialism - Introduction to Pictorialism
Pictorialism - J. Craig Annan: Portraits
Pictorialism - Photo-Club de Paris: Deuxième Exposition d'Art Photographique - 1895
Pictorialism - Photo-Club de Paris: Première Exposition d'Art Photographique - 1894
Pictorialism - Photo-Club de Paris: Quatrième Année Salon de Photographie - 1897
Pictorialism - Photo-Club de Paris: Troisième Exposition d'Art Photographique - 1896
Pictorialism - Pictorialism and the portrait
Pictorialism - Robert Demachy: Struggle
Platinum prints - Guido Rey: Platinum prints
Portrait - Autochromes: Portrait
Portrait - Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879): Portraits
Portrait - Louis-Adolphe Humbert de Molard: Daguerreotype portraits
Portrait - Photographs taken during the same sitting
Portrait - Pictorialism and the portrait
Portrait - The contemporary portrait
Pre-Raphaelite - John Robert Parsons: Jane Morris
Pre-Raphaelite - Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879): Portraits
Pre-Raphaelite - Using photographs to illustrate narratives: Mythological
Russia - Pictorialism in Russia
Russia - Russians
Second World War (1939-1945) - The Holocaust: The Pre-Second World War setting
Spain - Introduction to photography in Spain
Spain - José Ortiz-Echagüe (1886-1982)
Spain - Juan Laurent: Portraits
Spain - Spaniards
Staged photography - Henry Peach Robinson: Staged photography and composites
Stereoviews, stereographs and stereocards - Stereo daguerreotypes
Stereoviews, stereographs and stereocards - Stereoviews: Erotica
Still life - Apples
Street - Roman Vishniac: Street photography
Tableau vivant - Introduction to tableaux vivants
Tableau vivant - Mimicing art within Pictorialism
Text and calligraphy - Text and calligraphy: Examples
The Holocaust (1933-1945) - The Holocaust: The Pre-Second World War setting
Trees - A 20th century and contemporary perspective on trees
Trends - Periods, styles, movements and disjunctions
UK - Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879): Portraits
USA - Landscape photography in nineteenth century North America
Wiener Photographische Blätter - Herausgegeben Vom Camera-Club In Wien - Wiener Photographische Blätter: Herausgegeben Vom Camera-Club In Wien (1896)
Women photographers - Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879): Portraits

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