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| 1. |  | Eduard Isaac Asser 1851-1853 View from the roof of the photographer's house, Amsterdam Album (mounted on paper), Salted paper print from wet collodion on glass negative Rijksmuseum Copyright © Rijksmuseum Amsterdam (RP-F-AB12278-B) |
| 2. |  | Armand Hippolyte Fizeau 1843 Toiture et cheminée, rue du Cherche-Midi à Paris Daguerreotype 8.2 x 8.6 cm Musée d'Orsay (C) RMN (Musée d'Orsay) / Hervé Lewandowski, Europeana Identifier: RMNDO000000311536 ; PHO1989-13 |
| 3. |  | Roger Fenton 1860 The Queen's target Albumen print 28.1 x 24.5 cm Royal Photograph Collection The Royal Collection ® 2010, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, RCIN 2941855 This photograph was included in the exhibition Victoria & Albert: Art & Love at The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace, until 31 October 2010. Purchased by Queen Victoria. In 2010 this photograph was uploaded to flickr by The British Monarchy. The text on the Royal Collection website (www.royalcollection.org.uk) describes this remarkable photograph (Accessed: 6 Aug 2010): The simplicity and directness of this photograph make it one of the most striking examples of nineteenth century photography in existence. It shows the bullet hole on the target, created by Queen Victoria when she fired the fixed Whitworth Rifle at a distance of 400 yards. |
| 4. |  | Joseph Janvier Woodward 1871 (ca) Small Artery and Capillaries from Lung of Frog [Report to the Surgeon General of the United States Army on an improved Method of Photographing Histological Preparations by Sunlight" - Issued by the U.S. War Department Surgeon General's Office - Plate No. 2 (of 9).] Albumen print, photo-micrograph 6 x 6 in (16x16 cm) Christopher Wahren Fine Photographs Courtesy of Christopher Wahren Fine Photographs (hb72.365) On fancy mount 14 x 11 inches (35x28 cm) with gilt imprint "WAR DEPARTMENT, Surgeon General's Office, Army Medical Museum… by J. J. WOODWARD, Asst. Surg., U.S.A. / By order of the Surgeon General." With pasted-on printed label reading "SMALL ARTERY AND CAPILLARIES FROM LUNG OF FROG. The preparation was injected with a dilute silver solution and subsequently stained with carmine. Magnified 500 diameters. Negative No. 365, New Series." |
| 5. |  | Wilson A. Bentley 1895 (ca) Snowcrystal Albumen print 3 x 4 in (7.5 x 10 cm) Swann Galleries - New York Courtesy of Swann Galleries (Auction, Dec 7, 2006, #2097, Lot 372) |
| 6. |  | Carl Strüwe 1930 Diatoms - Triceratium (Dreieckform) Gelatin silver print, Microphotograph 400:1 23.5 x 17.4 cm Carl-Strüwe-Archiv © Carl-Struwe-Archiv, Bielefeld, Germany (STR-1-054) |
| 7. |  | William A. Garnett 1979 Plowing, Woodland, California Gelatin silver print 35.4 x 27.8 cm (13 15/16 x 10 15/16 in) J. Paul Getty Museum Object number: 2000.32.6, © Estate of William A. Garnett |
| 8. |  | Unidentified photographer 1905 Page from photograph album Private collection of Barbara Levine / projectB.com © Barbara Levine, 2007 - used with permission In 1905, a young couple from Massachusetts traveled to Italy, France, Germany, and Switzerland. The photographs in this album are composed in such a way to make use of light, shadow, and creative framing of subject matter. The album reveals the budding relationship between travel and amateur photography. For more on this vintage photograph album and many others see: Barbara Levine & Kirsten Jensen Around the World: The Grand Tour in Photo Albums (Princeton Architectural Press, 2007) |
| 9. |  | Laurie Archer n.d. Leavings 1 Solar plate etching 7 x 10 in Verve Gallery of Photography (CLOSED - 2017) © Laurie Archer - Courtesy of Verve Fine Arts Gallery |
| 10. |  | Barbara Maples 1967-1968 (ca) Abstract No. 22 Gelatin silver print PDNB Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery |
| 11. |  | Burton Pritzker 1988, June Baja XIII [Under the Shadow of Baja] Gelatin silver print Provided by the artist - Burton Pritzker |
| 12. |  | U.S. Air Force 1352nd Photographic Group, Lookout Mountain Station 1951, 19 November 9 a.m. Sugar, 1.2 Kilotons, Nevada Source requested Courtesy Michael Light Photo Synthesis Colin Westerbeck Sugar was the code name for one of the first atomic bomb blasts conducted at the Nevada Proving Ground about 65 miles from Las Vegas. The 1.2-kiloton yield produced by nuclear fission on this occasion was relatively low-level, at least in comparison with the hydrogen bombs employing nuclear fusion that would be exploded later at Enewetak and other Pacific Islands. Setting off this bomb only a few feet above ground level did have some dramatic results, however. One was to lift 50,000 cubic feet of vaporized, irradiated soil 11,000 feet into the atmosphere. I know all this because San-Francisco-based photographer Michael Light tracked down every government photograph of the nuclear-test program he could find in the public domain and published a selection of them in a 2003 book titled "100 SUNS." The 1352nd Photographic Group that made most of the images was stationed in Hollywood, in order to keep up with developments in picture-taking technology. Light's own recent photographs show how powerfully the documentation he uncovered has affected him. His series Some Dry Space is of the Western desert shot from a low-flying plane. It's what you might call a bomb's-eye view of the sort of terrain where the nuclear detonations took place. [Originally published in West Magazine : August 27, 2006 p.9] |
| 13. |  | Klavdij Sluban 2001 Finland [Other Shores - The Baltic Sea (2001-2005)] Gelatin silver print Provided by the artist - Klavdij Sluban |
| 14. |  | Karl Blossfeldt 1929 (2nd edition) Asclepias speciosa. Milkweed. Umbel enlarged 8 times. [Urformen der Kunst / Art Forms in Nature, Pl. 116] Gravure Christopher Wahren Fine Photographs The gravures measure roughly 10.25 x 7.5 inches (26x19 cm) and are printed on sheets 12.25 x 9.5 inches (31x24 cm) with plate number printed in the lower right corner. Images illustrated in horizontal format have been rotated 90 degrees clockwise. Plate descriptions are transcribed from the American printing (E. Weythe, New York, 1929). |
| 15. |  | Jens Knigge 2004 Bowel 9 Platinum/palladium print, hand-coated 16 x 21 cm (print) 22,5 x 27,5 cm (paper) Provided by the artist - Jens Knigge |
| 16. |  | Arthur Siegel 1950 Percept 62 Silver print 10 x 13 1/4 in (25.4 x 33.7 cm) Swann Galleries - New York Courtesy of Swann Galleries (Auction, Dec 13, 2007, Sale 2132 Lot 431) With Siegel's title and date, in ink, on mount verso. |
| 17. |  | Margaret Bourke-White 1931 Organ Pipes Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division Warren and Margot Coville Collection, Prints & Photographs Division, Library of Congress Clarence H. White School of Photography |
| 18. |  | David Maisel 2004 Oblivion 1382-52p Kopeikin Gallery (CLOSED - 2020) © David Maisel, Courtesy Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles Photo Synthesis Colin Westerbeck There's nothing like a good education to give you a unique perspective on the world. David Maisel graduated from Princeton summa cum laude in 1984, so it's not surprising that his work is brainy. He's aware that we live in a time when the economies are global, ideologies are not just political but geopolitical, science can look back beyond Noah's ark to the Big Bang, and nature itself is in danger of being extinguished. It's also true that "eye in the sky" satellites are keeping a close watch on us all the time. This photograph might be taken for a digital enhancement of such surveillance, but in fact, it's a low-tech image, though made from a high altitude. Maisel wants to disconcert us, but his interest is in the metaphorical rather than the actual revelations that his point of view makes possible. He wants his aerial photographs to "create their own cosmologies," not just map objective reality. His flyover of L.A. has yielded pictures that have this effect. They create a vision of a city more gothic than Gotham. This photograph of tract housing looks like an X-ray of the intestines of a giant beast that has eaten something it shouldn't have and is having trouble digesting it. [Originally published in West Magazine : January 28, 2007, p.11] |
| 19. |  | Imogen Cunningham 1920s (late) Leaf Pattern Gelatin silver print 13 in (33.02 cm) x 10 in (25.40 cm) Robert Tat Gallery © The Imogen Cunningham Trust; all rights reserved |
| 20. |  | Frederick Sommer 1980 (taken, later print) Cut Paper Gelatin silver print h: 9.6 x w: 7.5 in / h: 24.4 x w: 19 cm Etherton Gallery © Frederick and Frances Sommer Foundation Signed, dated verso on mount |
| 21. |  | Carl Chiarenza 1979 Rockland 2 Gelatin silver print Provided by the artist - Carl Chiarenza |
| 22. |  | Frederick Sommer 1966 (taken) 1981 (printed, before) Dürer Variation (vertical) Gelatin silver print h: 7.5 x w: 8.4 in / h: 19 x w: 21.3 cm Etherton Gallery © Frederick and Frances Sommer Foundation Signed, titled verso on mount |
| 23. |  | Imogen Cunningham 1929 (before) Leaf Pattern, Carmel Mission Gelatin silver print 4.5 in (11.43 cm) x 3.5 in (8.89 cm) Robert Tat Gallery © The Imogen Cunningham Trust; all rights reserved This unsigned, vintage contact print was one of a series of photographs Imogen made of a plant by the Mission Wall. The print is made on Wellington triple weight paper which has a soft velvety quality. On the back are a Grove Street studio label along with Imogen's printing notes written in pencil. A letter of authenticity from Rondal Partridge, Imogen Cunningham's son, Trustee of the Imogen Cunningham Trust accompanies the print. |
| 24. |  | Man Ray 1926 Untitled Gelatin silver print 11¢ x 8+ins (29.2 x 21 cm) Christie's - London Courtesy of Christies, London (Sale: 7434 - Photographs, Lot: 54 - Nov 13, 2007) Signed in pencil on recto; credit and reproduction limitation stamps, printing notations on verso. de l'Ecotais, Man Ray: Rayographies, Léo Scheer, 2002, p.141, no.177, for the Rayograph. This print was made for Man Ray's 1963 portfolio 12 Rayographs, 1921-1928. |
| 25. |  | Brett Weston 1933 (ca, taken) 1945 (ca, printed) Dunes Gelatin silver print h: 7.5 x w: 9.5 in / h: 19 x w: 24.1 cm Etherton Gallery Signed, dated on mount retco; signed on mount verso in pencil |
| 26. |  | Steven Evans 1997 Ceiling detail, Molasses Tank (1939) [Still Life] Gelatin silver print 16 x 20 in Provided by the artist - Steven Evans |
| 27. |  | Edward Weston 1931 Cabbage Leaf Gelatin silver print Lee Gallery Signed by the photographer l.r. recto. Numbered 7/50, ZZ1032 |
| 28. |  | Aaron Siskind 1949 (taken) 1957 (print) Jerome 20 Gelatin silver print h: 16.5 x w: 12 in / h: 41.9 x w: 30.5 cm Etherton Gallery Signed, Dated, Titled Verso- pencil Peeling paint on wood. Variant of more famous image, vertical rather than horizontal. |
| 29. |  | Carol Eyerman 1950 A surreal study of latex masks Gelatin silver print 11 x 14 in Private collection of Brad Feuerhelm |
| 30. |  | Arthur Siegel 1976 Licidigram Gelatin silver print 20 x 16 in Larry Gottheim, Be-hold, Inc Courtesy of Larry Gottheim - Be-Hold (49 / 118) Signed and dated 1976 on verso. This is a unique photogram. (Larry Gottheim) |
| 31. |  | Vilma Slomp 1996 Rhyme of Roses [A Dor ("Pain") - Artist's book] Gelatin silver print 40 x 40 cm Tepper Takayama Fine Arts |
| 32. |  | Klaus Wittkugel 1927 (ca, taken) 1950s (print) Abstract composition Gelatin silver print 28 x 23.5 cm Bassenge Photography Auctions Courtesy of Bassenge, 19th-21st Century Photography, 6 June 2012, Lot: 4359 |
| 33. |  | Todd Webb 1946 Brooklyn Bridge Gelatin silver print 5 x 7 in Carl Mautz Vintage Photographs |
| 34. |  | Harry Nankin 2006 Of Great Western Tears, Duet 2 (detail) [The Rain] Gold toned silver gelatine plein air shadowgrams on fibre paper, diptych 106 x 106 cm (each print, detail from) Provided by the artist - Harry Nankin |
| 35. |  | Unidentified photographer 1918, 26 January Photographed from a German Aeroplane: Tanks at Cambrai Magazine illustration The Courtauld Institute of Art Copyright: Illustrated London News Ltd. All rights reserved, Gale Document Number: HN3100550181 "Photographed from a German Aeroplane: Tanks at Cambrai." Photograph supplied by Topical. Illustrated London News (London, England), Saturday, January 26, 1918; pg. 115; Issue 4110. An enemy view of British Tanks in action during the Battle of Cambrai. The battle took place in November 1917 and it was the first time Tanks had operated in such force. |
| 36. |  | Frederick H. Evans 1914 (album) Photomicrograph Photomicrograph George Eastman Museum GEH#1973:0250:0042b From the album "Photo-micrographs by Frederick H. Evans. Negatives and Silver prints made before 1886, other prints in Satista platinotype in 1914" held at George Eastman House. |
| 37. |  | Margaret Bourke-White 1934 Rims Stacked for Drying and Machining Gelatin silver print 9 x 11 3/4 in (22.9 x 29.8 cm) Swann Galleries - New York Sale 2208 Lot 88 With 2 Fortune hand stamps, a label with the typed title, and notations, including Bourke-White's credit, in pencil, in an unknown hand, on verso. Bourke-White was assigned to the shoot the Steinway & Sons factory for Fortune magazine's December 1934 issue. The company, which was founded in March of 1853, will be celebrating its 157th birthday this year. Each masterfully crafted piano takes from 9 months to a year to complete. |
| 38. |  | John William Draper 1856 Photomicrograph of Algae Daguerreotype National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution Behring Center, Division of Information Technology and Communications, Photographic History Collection, Image No. AFS 146 |
| 39. |  | Unidentified photographer 1926, 6 November Guns Photographed at Night by their Own Flash: "Renown's" Broadside Magazine illustration The Courtauld Institute of Art Copyright: Illustrated London News Ltd. All rights reserved, Gale Document Number: HN3100271369 Guns Photographed at Night by Their Own Flash: "Renown's" Broadside Gunnery Practice by a Ship of the Fleet Recently Seen in "Action" by the Dominion Premiers. Illustrated London News (London, England), Saturday, November 06, 1926; pg. [863] |
| 40. |  | Willy Zielke 1929 Glasplattenstapel I [Stacking of Glass Plates I] Gelatin silver print 22.9 x 17.1 cm Sotheby's - Paris Photographies, 11 November 2011, Lot 48 Au verso, signé au crayon. Avec des annotations au crayon d'une main inconnue. |
| 41. |  | Willy Zielke 1930 (ca) untitled [Photogram] Gelatin silver print, photogram 18.4 x 24.3 cm (image) Sotheby's - Paris Photographies, 11 November 2011, Lot 54 Contrecollé sur carton d'époque. Signé au crayon sur le carton en bas a droite. |
| 42. |  | Berenice Abbott 1931 Photograph design for a textile Gelatin silver print 8 7/8 x 6 5/16 ins (22.5 x 16.1 cm) Philadelphia Museum of Art The Lynne and Harold Honickman Gift of the Julien Levy Collection, 2001, 2001-62-1234 |
| 43. |  | Berenice Abbott 1931 Photograph design for a wastebasket Gelatin silver print 7 1/2 x 9 1/2 ins (19.1 x 24.1 cm) Philadelphia Museum of Art The Lynne and Harold Honickman Gift of the Julien Levy Collection, 2001, 2001-62-1506 |
| 44. |  | Henry Fox Talbot 1858 (or later) [Dandelion Seeds] (Detail) Photogravure (photoglyphic engraving from a copper plate), Detail 10.5 x 7.6 cm (4 1/8 x 3 ins) (image) 12.5 x 9.4 cm (4 15/16 x 3 11/16 ins) (plate) 15.1 x 11.3 cm (5 15/16 x 4 7/16 ins) (sheet) Metropolitan Museum of Art Rogers Fund, 2004, Accession Number: 2004.111 |
| 45. |  | Henry Fox Talbot 1839 Lace (enlarged detail) [Album di disegni fotogenici - The Bertoloni Album, Leaf 13 Recto] Photogenic drawing, solar microscope, detail Metropolitan Museum of Art Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1936 (36.37.3) A enlargement of lace magnified 400 times with a solar microscope. This section of the image has been captured to show the remarkable detail of the original. |
| 46. |  | Hans Hammarski÷ld 1952 Frosty Grass Gelatin silver print Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin © Hans Hammarskiöld. Image courtesy of the Harry Ransom Center. In 2010 this photograph was used for the poster for the exhibition "Discovering the Language of Photography - The Gernsheim Collection" (Harry Ransom Humantities Research Center) |
| 47. |  | Paul & Prosper Henry 1885, 13 August A Section of the Constellation Cygnus Albumen silver print, from glass negative 25.8 x 21.2 cm (10 3/16 x 8 3/8 ins) Metropolitan Museum of Art Gilman Collection, Purchase, Robert Rosenkranz Gift, 2005, Accession Number: 2005.100.124 |
| 48. |  | E.O. Hoppé 1929 Electric globes Gelatin silver print E.O. Hoppé Estate © E.O. Hoppé / Curatorial Assistance, Inc., Ref: 18429-E |
| 49. |  | Constantin Brancusi 1930 (ca) Photo experimentation: Foot prints, Paris Gelatin silver print 23.8 x 8 cm CEROS - Jean-Mathieu Martini / Serge Plantureux Binoche et Giquello, épreuves choisies, 18 november 2010, lot no: 144 |
| 50. |  | Harold E. Edgerton 1939 (ca, taken) 1970s (mid-late, taken) Bouncing Ball Silver print 8 1/2 x 12 3/4 ins (21.5 x 32.3 cm) Swann Galleries - New York Courtesy of Swann Galleries (Auction, "Important Photograms & Photobooks", Dec 9, 2010, #2233, Lot 161) With Edgerton's signature and title, in pencil, on verso. |
| 51. |  | William A. Garnett 1954 Nude Dune Death Valley, California, D.V., Sand Dune #1 Gelatin silver print 13 1/2 x 10 1/4 ins (34.3 x 26 cm) Sotheby's - New York Courtesy of Sotheby's New York (Photographs, 6 April 2011, NO8730, Lot 18) |
| 52. |  | Harry Callahan 1946 (ca) Torn Sign Gelatin silver print 7 5/8 x 9 1/2 ins (19.4 x 24.1 cm) Sotheby's - New York Courtesy of Sotheby's New York (Photographs, 6 April 2011, NO8730, Lot 58) |
| 53. |  | Jaromír Funke 1929 Composition [Abstraktni Foto] Gelatin silver print 11 5/8 x 9 1/4 ins (29.5 x 23.5 cm) Sotheby's - New York Courtesy of Sotheby's New York (Photographs, 6 April 2011, NO8730, Lot 96) |
| 54. |  | Unidentified photographer 1920s 1920s series production Citroen, France Gelatin silver print Private collection of Jan Weijers (Servatius) |
| 55. |  | Brett Weston 1974 (taken) 1980 (portfolio) Tide Pool Gelatin silver print 28.6 x 26.9 cm Piasa Photographies, 28 October 2011, Lot 104 Epreuve gélatino-argentique de 1980 réalisée pour le portfolio "Abstraction #1". Signée et datée a la mine de plomb sur le montage. Cachet au dos : "Portfolio Print N¦5, 21/35". + la fin de sa vie Brett Weston a br¹lé tous ses négatifs, il n'existe donc que de trÞs beaux tirages d'époque réalisés par le photographe lui-même. |
| 56. |  | René-Jacques 1953 Renault Gelatin silver print 34.2 x 27.5 cm Artcurial courtesy of Artcurial (30 Jan 2008, Sale 1420, Lot 101) From the Jean Albou Collection. |
| 57. |  | United States Army Signal Corps 1940 Antiaircraft Searchlights in Action, Panama Gelatin silver print image: 19.2 x 24 cm (7 9/16 x 9 7/16 ins) sheet: 20.1 x 25.4 cm (7 15/16 x 10 ins) Princeton University Art Museum Museum purchase, Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund, Object Number: 2008-1052 |