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“Photography is a kingdom of glamour and banality.” A.O. Scott

“Photography is a kingdom of glamour and banality.” A.O. Scott. Social History of Photography. Daguerreotype Portraiture. Mme. Daguerre, ca. 1840. Daguerre, Boulevard du Temple , 1839. Paul Delaroche, 1839: “As of today painting is dead.” “La peinture est morte à partie de ce jour.”.

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“Photography is a kingdom of glamour and banality.” A.O. Scott

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  1. “Photography is a kingdom of glamour and banality.” A.O. Scott Social History of Photography Daguerreotype Portraiture

  2. Mme. Daguerre, ca. 1840

  3. Daguerre, Boulevard du Temple, 1839

  4. Paul Delaroche, 1839: “As of today painting is dead.”“La peinture est morte à partie de ce jour.” But he kept painting. . . (Napoleon crossing the Alps, 1848)

  5. Ars photographica The Art of Photography Breathed on by the mirrors of the sun, A brilliant image appears How beautifully it reflects the forehead, The light of the eye, the charm of the mouth. Oh marvelous power of the mind, Nature’s new creation Not even the hand of Appeles, the Master, Could have produced it more effectively. Pope Leo XIII (r. 1878-1903) “Ars photographica”/ “The Art of Photography”

  6. Daguerreotype Portraiture

  7. Daguerreotype Portraiture

  8. Daguerreotype Portrait of E.A. Poe Ca. 1840 E.A. Poe, “The Daguerreotype” 1840 xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/POE/daguer.html‎

  9. Daguerreotype Erotica

  10. Eugénie de la Délassements-Comique Les insoumises by Vaury, 1865 Erotic Medical Ethnographic 1847 a south-east Australian Aboriginal and two younger companions . * RISD Museum: Prints, Drawings, & Photographs, Open hours F : 10:30-12:30 Daguerreotypes: Portraits of another kind

  11. Daguerreotypes For multiple uses

  12. Andreas Ritter von Ettinghausen, Clematis Stem, microscopic cross-section , 1840, daguerreotype, Vienna

  13. Ettinghausen 1840 Delaroche, Bonaparte Crossing the Alps 1848 Is Painting Dead?

  14. Daguerre, Fossils and Shells, 1839

  15. Crystal objects (1844) William Henry Fox-Talbot British

  16. Alphonse Bertillon Teaching his System at the Paris Prefécture of Police. “Sérvice de l’Identité judicaire: cours de Signalement descriptif (Portrait Parle)” Prefécture de Police, Paris.

  17. Bertillon’s Lesson on physiognomic resemblance: Women of the same race (Roma) “Gitanes” Twin brothers. Possible to identify types and individuals.

  18. Archaeological photography Giorgio Sommer, ca. 1875 Cast Figures at Pompeii

  19. Textbook on Greek Sculpture, Emanuel Löwy, (Freud’s best friend) 1911

  20. Egyptian mummy portrait and ruins: Seti I and the Stele of Ramses II James Henry Breasted, A History of Egypt, 1905

  21. Vincenzo Galdi, Naples, ca. 1907 French, carte-de-visite, 1860’s Ethnographic/erotic Classicism/ Orientalism: Italy and Egypt Erotic/exotic/classical/slippage

  22. The Slave Market Jean Léone Gérôme 1866oil on canvas Egyptian woman by French photographer Carte-de-visite 1860’s

  23. J. Barnett and Co.:  Young Xosa [Xhosa] Woman in Costume; Wood Bowls and Gourd Container Nearby  n.d. [late nineteenth century].

  24. Young Xhosa Woman, ca. 1870 see Titian, Manet Ethnography or erotica? Presence of colonialism? .

  25. Delacroix Odalisque Eugène Durieu nude study 1853-4 Photographs for use by artists and designers (Orientalist subject by Delacroix)

  26. Algerian woman, photograph, 1892

  27. Gaétan Gatian de Clérambault, Draped Figure, Morocco, 1917-20

  28. Printed textiles, Mulhouse Adolphe Braun, Flower Study for textile design Colmar 1854-5 William Morris Photographs for use by artists and designers

  29. Brooch, Jugendstil, Vienna ca. 1900 Martin Gerlach, A World of Forms in Nature 1902-4 Photographs for use by artists and designers

  30. Film still 1896 Dr. Camillo Negro, Turin, Italy Dr. Charcot, Paris, photograph Medical and Psychiatric Photography

  31. Medical and Psychiatric Photography Jean-Martin Charcot, La Salpêtrière, Paris Hysterical Epileptic Contracture and Melancholic Delirium Bourneville and Regnard (photographers), L’Iconographie photographique

  32. Sarah Bernhardt as Phaedre Medical and Psychiatric Photography Jean-Martin Charcot, La Salpêtrière, Paris

  33. Woman with Aneurism after “accidental shooting” 4 months pregnant at time of photograph Medical Photograph, USA, 1871 (slavery ended 1865) She was probably a slave.

  34. John Draper, Orion Nebula, ca. 1880 Making the Invisible Visible Albert Montessier, photomicrographs 1866

  35. Frederick A. Hudson (England) Lady Helena Newenham and the Spirit of Her Daughter June 4, 1872 Making the invisible visible: Spirit Photography

  36. Making the invisible visible: Spirit Photography, Russia ca. 1905

  37. X-ray negative Sun Fish 1896 Josef-Maria Eder (1855-1944) Photochemist/ Historian of Photography Royal Imperial School Institute for Graphic and Photographic Research, 1888 Vienna, Capital of Austro-Hungarian Empire

  38. X-ray Photograph Josef-Maria Eder Royal Imperial Institute for Graphic and Photographic Research, Vienna 1896

  39. Gustav Klimt Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer (NY, Neue Galerie) Vienna 1907 Emil Zuckerkändel had him look through A microscope at his wife’s salon E

  40. Ferdinand Schenk, Vienna ca. 1890 Microscopies of acid on metal surfaces

  41. Roland Barthes 1915-1980 Mme. Barthes and her son, Roland ca. 1920

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