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Still-life: Eggs
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1.Paul Nadar
1890 (ca)
Dancer in costume holding eggs

Albumen print cabinet card
15.0 x 10.2 cm
 
George Eastman Museum
Courtesy of George Eastman House (GEH NEG: 37105)
 
LL/6914
2.James P. Walter
1889 (ca)
Florence Walter putting eggs in basket
[Untitled Walter family album of portraits]

Albumen print cabinet card
14.8 x 9.9 cm
 
George Eastman Museum
Courtesy of George Eastman House, Gift of Edna L. Tichenor (85:0972:0007)
 
LL/6937
3.Knowlton Brothers
1870s
Duck Hawk's Eggs, and Eyire, Mt Tom Mass.

Stereocard
Stereoviews: Stereoviews and Fine 19th & 20th Century Antique Photographs
Courtesy of David Spahr (www.stereoviews.com)
 
LL/29552
4.Knowlton Brothers
1870s
Duck Hawk's Eggs, and Eyire, Mt Tom Mass.

Stereocard, detail
Stereoviews: Stereoviews and Fine 19th & 20th Century Antique Photographs
Courtesy of David Spahr (www.stereoviews.com)
 
LL/29553
5.Unknown (probably American)
1850s (late) - 1860s (early)
Untitled #32

Stereocard
Stereoviews: Stereoviews and Fine 19th & 20th Century Antique Photographs
Courtesy of David Spahr (www.stereoviews.com)
 
LL/29548
6.Unknown (probably American)
1850s (late) - 1860s (early)
Untitled #32

Stereocard, detail
Stereoviews: Stereoviews and Fine 19th & 20th Century Antique Photographs
Courtesy of David Spahr (www.stereoviews.com)
 
LL/29549
7.W.H. Mason
1860s
Untitled [Birds nest with eggs)

Stereocard, hand-painted, detail
Stereoviews: Stereoviews and Fine 19th & 20th Century Antique Photographs
Courtesy of David Spahr (www.stereoviews.com)
 
LL/30068
8.Keystone View Company
1900-1910 (ca)
#12338 - (a) Stealing My Eggs Are You?

Stereocard
Stereoviews: Stereoviews and Fine 19th & 20th Century Antique Photographs
Courtesy of David Spahr (www.stereoviews.com)
 
LL/29542
9.Keystone View Company
1900-1910 (ca)
#12338 - (a) Stealing My Eggs Are You?

Stereocard, detail
Stereoviews: Stereoviews and Fine 19th & 20th Century Antique Photographs
Courtesy of David Spahr (www.stereoviews.com)
 
LL/29543
10.Keystone View Company
1900-1910 (ca)
#12339 - (b) Pa, Don‘t You Know Your Own Daughter?

Stereocard
Stereoviews: Stereoviews and Fine 19th & 20th Century Antique Photographs
Courtesy of David Spahr (www.stereoviews.com)
 
LL/29544
11.Keystone View Company
1900-1910 (ca)
#12339 - (b) Pa, Don‘t You Know Your Own Daughter?

Stereocard, detail
Stereoviews: Stereoviews and Fine 19th & 20th Century Antique Photographs
Courtesy of David Spahr (www.stereoviews.com)
 
LL/29545
12.Keystone View Company
1900-1910 (ca)
#10567 - Look Out, Johnny, You‘ll Break the Eggs!

Stereocard
Stereoviews: Stereoviews and Fine 19th & 20th Century Antique Photographs
Courtesy of David Spahr (www.stereoviews.com)
 
LL/29546
13.Keystone View Company
1900-1910 (ca)
#10567 - Look Out, Johnny, You‘ll Break the Eggs!

Stereocard, detail
Stereoviews: Stereoviews and Fine 19th & 20th Century Antique Photographs
Courtesy of David Spahr (www.stereoviews.com)
 
LL/29547
14.Margaret Watkins
1921
Domestic Symphony.
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Warren and Margot Coville Collection, Prints & Photographs Division, Library of Congress
 
Clarence H. White School of Photography
 
LL/15500
15.Paul Outerbridge
1921
Kitchen Table
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Warren and Margot Coville Collection, Prints & Photographs Division, Library of Congress
 
Clarence H. White School of Photography
 
LL/15525
16.John P. Heins
1919 (ca)
Egg Cup Abstraction

Platinum print
4 11/16 x 3 13/16 in
 
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Warren and Margot Coville Collection, Prints & Photographs Division, Library of Congress [LC-USZC4-9773]
 
Clarence H. White School of Photography
 
LL/15572
17.Unidentified photographer
1930s
Eggs

Gelatin silver print
30 x 40cm (11 3/4 x 15 3/4in)
 
Bloomsbury Auctions - London
Auction, Photographs, 23 November 2012, Lot 42
 
LL/49342
18.Ion Zupcu
2003, 3 February
Untitled [February 3]

Gelatin silver print, sepia-toned
10 x 10 in
 
Provided by the artist - Ion Zupcu
LL/5465
19.Ralph Steiner
1929
Ham and Eggs
Barry Singer Gallery
LL/3005
20.Josef Sudek
1950s (ca)
(Eggs in Basket)

Gelatin silver print
4 3/16 x 6 7/16
 
Barry Singer Gallery
LL/3029
21.Walter Peterhans
1930 (ca)
Stilleben mit schwebendem Ei

Gelatin silver print
20,2 x 21,3 cm (22,9 x 23,9 cm)
 
Van Ham Fine Art Auctions
Van Ham - Contemporary Photographs, Literature on Photography (June 14, 2008) Lot: 259
 
Signed in pencil below picture on the right. Verso signed in pencil and denoted "Bauhaus Dessau". Additionally with ownership note from 1980 and illegible stamp.
 
Published in (each cutout slightly larger): Emilio Bertonati. Das experimentelle Photo in Deutschland 1918-1940. Munchen 1978. Fig. p. 148; bauhaus Photographie. Ed.: Christian Bouqueret. Exhibition catalogue of Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles Musée Réattu; MAM de la Ville de Paris. Arles 1983. Fig. plate 49 (there titled: Stilleben mit Ei und Riffelblech, 1929); Fotografie am Bauhaus. Ed.: Jeannine Fiedler fur das Bauhaus-Archiv. Berlin: Bauhaus-Archiv Verlag Dirk Nishen, 1990. Fig. p. 262; Walter Peterhans. Fotografien 1927-38. Serie Folkwang. Exhibition catalogue of the Fotografische Sammlung im Museum Folkwang a.o. Oberhausen 1993. Fig. p. 48.
 
LL/29197
22.Carlotta M. Corpron
1948
Eggs Reflected and Multiplied

Gelatin silver print
PDNB Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery
© 1988 Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
 
LL/26558
23.Man Ray
1931 (taken) 1986 (print)
Composition avec l'oeuf

Gelatin silver print
28.7 x 19.9 cm
 
Lempertz - Cologne
Auction 1012, May 24, 2013, Lot: 46
 
Printed 1986 by Pierre Gassmann.
 
LL/50739
24.Unidentified photographer
n.d.
Fixing Eggs in the Spud Locke

Gelatin silver print
Select Vernacular Photographs / Norman Kulkin
Wet stamp mark "North end photo finishing house 131 E. New St. Lancaster, Pa."
 
LL/30011
25.Gerlovin & Gerlovina
2002
Two Eggs
[Perhappiness]

C-print
40 x 30
 
Flomenhaft Gallery
LL/1343
26.Laszlo Layton
2003
Emu (Egg)
[Cabinet of Curiosities]

Cyanotype, toned, hand-coloured
11 x 14 in
 
Peter Fetterman Gallery
LL/660
27.Mikhail Kudish
n.d.
#8
[Still life]
Provided by the artist - Mikhail Kudish
LL/27014
28.Burton Pritzker
2004, April
Chicken Egg
[Artifacts]

Gelatin silver print
Provided by the artist - Burton Pritzker
LL/18109
29.Anne Arden McDonald
1992
Self portrait with an egg
[Self portraits]

Gelatin silver print
5 x 5 in
 
Provided by the artist - Anne Arden McDonald
Courtesy of the artist
 
"What inspired me?
 
I had not had the Diana camera for long, it was 1992, I was still doing self portraits (that's me with the egg), I love symbols, and an egg is a great symbol--"
(Anne Arden Macdonald, July 3, 2008)
 
LL/29401
30.György Kepes
n.d.
Egg and Silkscreen

Gelatin silver print
Barry Singer Gallery
LL/2896
31.Alfons Himmelreich
1944, August
Egg composition

Gelatin silver print
Silver Print Gallery and Archive
This composition was almost certainly made for an advertisement.
 
LL/29414
32.Alfons Himmelreich
1950s
Eggs

Gelatin silver print
Silver Print Gallery and Archive
"… taken in the 1950s when there was rationing in this country [Israel] and eggs were exported to raise foreign currency." (Vivienne Silver-Brody, July 2008)
 
LL/29415
33.Kenji Nakahashi
1984
Two Eggs

Gelatin silver print
19.8 x 31.7 cm
 
Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas
Id number: 1989.0068
 
LL/57973
34.David C. Halliday
n.d.
Breadsticks and Eggs - included in the Perfect World of David Halliday with hand-printed photographs by David Halliday

Gelatin silver print
21st Editions
LL/1392
35.Josef Sudek
1960
Egg

Silver print
3 1/4 x 3 1/2 ins (8.3 x 8.9 cm)
 
Swann Galleries - New York
Sale 2325 Lot 188
 
LL/51411
36.Mariana Cook
1999, 23 September, 5:10 pm
Egg, NYC
[Cloe at Hand]

Gelatin silver print
4 x 4 in (image) 14 x 11 (mount) / 36 x 36 in (image) 46 x 40 in (mount)
 
Lee Marks Fine Art
Recto: signed in pencil; verso: signed, titled, dated & numbered
 
LL/29537
37.William Coupon
2000
Untitled [Still life with racoon skull, clock and egg - blue]

Archival inkjet print
Various sizes
 
Provided by the artist - William Coupon
This photograph was taken in New York City.
 
LL/29403
38.Jefferson Hayman
2003
Fertility Talisman

Gelatin silver print
8 x 10 in
 
Provided by the artist - Jefferson Hayman
LL/29406
39.Jefferson Hayman
2004
Still Life

Gelatin silver print
5 x 6 in
 
Provided by the artist - Jefferson Hayman
LL/29407
40.Anne Arden McDonald
2008, May
Untitled
2.5 x 2.5 in
 
Provided by the artist - Anne Arden McDonald
LL/29405
41.Jerry N. Uelsmann
2007
Untitled

Gelatin silver print
14 x 11 in
 
Provided by the artist - Jerry Uelsmann
Courtesy of the artist
 
LL/29418
42.Maggie Taylor
1999
Small possibility

Inkjet print
15 x 15 in
 
Provided by the artist - Maggie Taylor
LL/29412
43.Maggie Taylor
2001
Small home

Inkjet print
15 x 15 in
 
Provided by the artist - Maggie Taylor
LL/29413
44.Ron Reeder
2007
Hatch

Palladium print, on Arches Platine paper
15 x 17 in
 
Provided by the artist - Ron Reeder
LL/29408
45.Tracey Holland
1998
Panel 40
[Vessel]

Color print
Provided by the artist - Tracey Holland
Courtesy of Tracey Holland, © Tracey Holland
 
LL/10328
46.Nickolas Muray
1922 (ca) - 1961
Unbtitled [Eggs]
George Eastman Museum
© Nickolas Muray Photo Archives, Courtesy of George Eastman House, Gift of Mrs. Nickolas Muray (71:0048:0057)
 
LL/30807
   
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