prints
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Wild man of art, Constantin Brancusi by Man Ray, 1930. Modern print.
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Colour photography isn’t a modern phenomenon, but we tend to think it is because until the middle of the 20th century news couldn’t easy print colour photos and the process was expensive and fiddly…but there are quite a lot of early colour photos out there.
Here’s Monet and his Garden in 1918 by Étienne Clémentel,
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Joseph H Budd
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Soder: The naked Nietzsche on a high mountain.
Exlibris für Friedrich Berthold Sutter.
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E. & A. Mele & Ci. by Franz Laskoff, circa 1900.
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E.& A. Mele & Ci poster, circa 1900
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Illustration by Anna and Elena Balbusso.
‘But whom to love? To trust and treasure?
Who won’t betray us in the end?
And who’ll be kind enough to measure
Our words and deeds as we intend?’– Pushkin
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WUT 50 SHADES OF GREY? Sorry, too easy…
I await the 50 Shades / Zone Theory Photo Geek Slash Fic with interest…
Ansel Adams (American, 1902-1984), Self-Portrait, ca 1930. Silver gelatin print.
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A triton carrying a child on his tail, while holding a sea horse by the beard. Nicoletto da Modena, 1507. (via British Museum)
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I tend to focus on portraits and paintings and such like, but sometimes a pattern like this is too beautiful to pass up.
Front cover from The lady of the lake, by Walter Scott, illustrated by Charles Edmund Brock. London, 1904.
(Source: archive.org)
thistles make the prettiest patterns