Art principles in portrait photography : composition, treatment of backgrounds, and the processes involved in manipulating the plate /

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Fragmentos roubados: o retrato da incompletude

The portrait, as well as the self-portrait, in his pictorial tradition built a type of own speech. The contemporary technologies offered other ways of representation that break with the tradition, at the same time in which they talk to her. How we may read a contemporary portrait? It is the question that looks for these paper from the work of art “50 Hours: Self-portrait Stolen” of the photographer Rocheli Costi. The inter – relations between others texts are, in the aesthetic texts, the mark of the contemporaneousness producing a format of hypertext, which the reading depends on the connections that the reader is going to draw.

The pre-raphaelite female muse in Julia margaret cameron’s “idylls of the king” photographs

There has been little discussion of Julia Margaret Cameron’s Idylls of the King photographs over the past decade. My goal with this paper is to bring her Idylls of the King series back into discussion and address its success and relevance in both art history and literature. Scholars Helmut Gernsheim and Marylu Hill have questioned photography as a means to capture the imaginative content of Tennyson’s Arthurian stories and they declared Cameron’s photographs a failure. I argue that her theatrical style, use of props and costumes, obvious posing of her models, and nod to Victorian tableaux vivants capture the true essence of Tennyson’s epic. Her use of the Pre-Raphaelite female muse to portray the Arthurian characters of Elaine, Guinevere, and Vivien places her photographs in direct correlation with Pre-Raphaelite painting as well as popular literature. Her depictions of Tennyson’s epic poem are highly successful and I believe she achieved her personal goal of ennobling photography to the level of High Art.

Pocket Kodak portraiture /

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The oriental races and tribes, residents and visitors of Bombay : a series of photographs with letter-press descriptions /

Includes 51 mounted albumen prints depicting members of tribes and social classes in Bombay, India.

Album-contemporain : contenant les biographies sommaires de trois cents des principaux personnages de notre époque /

Contains 304 mounted albumen prints in postage stamp format.

Home portraiture made easy /

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Tintype Portrait of African American Couple [n.d.]

An unidentified couple is pictured in this early black and white tintype photograph. The date, location and name of the photographer are unknown. This tintype was in the possession of Iris Sloman Bell, of St. Catharines, Ontario. The Bell - Sloman families have relatives who are descended from African American slaves who settled in Canada."Tintypes were the invention of Prof. Hamilton Smith of Ohio. They begin as thin sheets of iron, covered with a layer of black paint. This serves as the base for the same iodized collodion coating and silver nitrate bath used in the ambrotype process. First made in 1856, millions were produced well into the twentieth century. When tintypes were finished in the same sorts of mats and cases used for ambrotypes, it can be almost impossible to distinguish which process was used without removing the image to examine the substrate." Source: American Museum of Photography http://www.photographymuseum.com/primer.html

Photograph - Male Portrait 1892

A photograph of a male taken in October 1892 by Poole photography, St. Catharines.