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June 18, 2012 with 103 notes
        tags: 1900s. 1904. Auction. Colour Photography. Edward Steichen. History. Mamaroneck. Moon. Moonlight. New York. Photography. Pond. The Pond - Moonlight. Vintage. Water. unique. vintage photography. forest. woodland. trees.
The Pond—Moonlight The Pond—Moonlight is a pictorialist photograph by Edward Steichen. The photograph was made in 1904 in Mamaroneck, New York, near the home of his friend, art critic Charles Caffin. The photograph features a forest across a pond, with part of the moon appearing over the horizon in a gap in the trees. The Pond—Moonlight is an early color photograph, predating the first widespread color photography technique (the 1907 autochrome), and was created by manually applying light-sensitive gums. Only three known versions of the Pond-Moonlight are still in existence and, as a result of the hand-layering of the gums, each is unique. In February 2006, a print of the photograph sold for US $2.9 million, at the time, the highest price ever paid for a photograph at auction.

The Pond—Moonlight

The Pond—Moonlight is a pictorialist photograph by Edward Steichen. The photograph was made in 1904 in Mamaroneck, New York, near the home of his friend, art critic Charles Caffin. The photograph features a forest across a pond, with part of the moon appearing over the horizon in a gap in the trees. The Pond—Moonlight is an early color photograph, predating the first widespread color photography technique (the 1907 autochrome), and was created by manually applying light-sensitive gums.

Only three known versions of the Pond-Moonlight are still in existence and, as a result of the hand-layering of the gums, each is unique. In February 2006, a print of the photograph sold for US $2.9 million, at the time, the highest price ever paid for a photograph at auction.

May 16, 2012 with 666 notes
        tags: The Burns Archive. Burns Archive. Anatomy. death. disease. disaster. crime. racism. revolution. riot. war. post-mortem. medicine. Dr Stanley B Burns. vintage photography. Victorian. History. nineteenth century. 19th century. 1800s.

The Burns Archive is a collection of over 700,000 vintage photographs noted for iconic, historical images, including medical photography, anatomical oddities, post-mortem photography and graphic detail of the darker side of life—death, disease, disaster, crime, racism, revolution, riots, and war. The Burns Archive also publishes the Sleeping Beauty series of books about memorial photography with post-mortem photographs.

The Burns Archive is made up of copy prints from the Burns Collection, the body of work of Dr. Stanley B. Burns, M.D., an ophthalmologist and its creator, curator, and proprietor. The collection is purportedly the nation’s largest of early medical photography and the most important private historic nineteenth century documentary photography collection in the world and is a unique source of historic visual documentation. This is a unique source generally available as stock photography.

The Burns Archive Official Website and Blog (more photos are available at the blog).

April 22, 2012 with 17 notes
        tags: Victorian. Back to Front. Weird. Vintage. Vintage photography. suit. History. nineteenth century. 19th Century. 1800s. 1880.
Back to front. c.1880.

Back to front. c.1880.

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