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I am back…
…for a bit anyway. Queued up many weeks of vintage photos of bearded men for your delight and enjoyment!
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I thought I’d posted the French-Scots loveliness that is composer Erik Satie, but not.
EDIT – turns out this is a crop of a Man Ray photo of 1921. Full size now added.
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Edouard Vuillard (French, 1868-1940)
Self-Portrait, 1892
Posting all my favourites! Or should that be fauvorites? (a little art history humour for you there, try the veal!)
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herzogtum-sachsen-weissenfels:
Mathew Brady (American, 1822-1896), Daguerrotype of the Artist William Sidney Mount (1807-1868), 1853-60.
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herzogtum-sachsen-weissenfels:
Robert Delaunay (French, 1885-1941), Portrait of Dr. Piraz, c. 1907. Oil and wax on canvas, 62 x 51 cm.
I <3 Delaunay! So much, big influence when I used to paint.
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Autochrome, circa 1920
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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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Autochrome, 1917c Alfred Stieglitz, Alfred Joseph Obermeyer and Katherine Stieglitz. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke
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Two Men Playing Chess
Autochrome, 1907 Alfred Stieglitz, Two Men Playing Chess 9 x 12 cm cm Alfred Stieglitz Collection 1955, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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Autochrome, 1907c Alfred Stieglitz, Frank Eugene.